Printed Architecture: Vladimír Balda, Petr Šmídek

Vladimír's bookstore Serius and the civic association PLAC cordially invite you to the 24th lecture in the series "Printed Architecture". This time, on Friday, February 27, 2015, at 6:30 PM in Jablonec, we will welcome architects Vladimír Balda and Petr Šmídek, whose lecture will focus on the book Paths to Poland, which was created at the Faculty of Art and Architecture of the Technical University of Liberec, as part of a series of authors within the project Architecture Outside the Centers.
Contemporary Polish architecture is not very well known in the Czech Republic except for a few exceptions. However, not far from our borders, many interesting buildings can be seen, starting from family houses, through successful reconstructions, to large public buildings such as schools, museums, and libraries. The publication Paths to Poland is a record of two trips aimed at understanding and documenting contemporary Polish architecture within a limited time. In accordance with the idea of the project, under which the trips took place, the content of the publication focuses primarily on buildings realized outside major urban centers and by local architects.

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Ing. arch. Vladimír Balda (*1972) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He completed his studies in 2001 with a diploma project under Prof. Alena Šrámková. He worked for two years within an IT company as a consultant and instructor of CAD applications for the field of architecture and construction. Since 2003, he has been working at the Faculty of Art and Architecture at TU in Liberec as a teaching assistant in the design studio, while also teaching CAD subjects. He simultaneously runs his own architectural practice. Member of the Czech Chamber of Architects and supporting member of the Passive House Center.

Petr Šmídek studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and is the editor of the foreign section of the architecture internet portal archiweb.cz.