Versus Architect > Karel Prager > Invitation to the former federal assembly

“Architecture as a manifestation of art follows rules that are subject to its time. People need to get used to new things.”   

Versus Architect and Four Days invite you within the framework of the 4+4 Days in Motion festival to two unique evenings in the building of the former federal assembly, presenting the work and person of architect Karel Prager.

October 13, 2009 > 21:00 > KAREL GOTT PRAGER > SPAM > VLADIMÍR 518 > DAVID VRBÍK > ONDŘEJ ANDĚRA
An audiovisual composition interwoven with the theme of the life and work of the greatest and most controversial Czech architect of the second half of the 20th century. Karel Prager (1923-2001) is still rejected by the general public and many in the artistic scene, having been labeled as pro-communist and pro-system before and after the revolution, too insensitive and radical. The SPAM – Karel Gott Prager project is a free structure that breaks down the unjustly created clichés surrounding his person and sets a new perspective on his legacy and work.
authors:

VLADIMÍR 518, * 1978
one of the longest-serving rappers in the Czech hip-hop scene, a member of the group PSH, founder of the Bigg Boss label; a prominent figure in the graffiti scene, illustrator, comic artist; released a solo CD Gorila vs architekt in 2008

ONDŘEJ ANDĚRA, *1974
one of the main figures of Czech hip-hop in the 90s, project WWW – debut album Neurobeat; director of films – Za obrazovkou, Bílá hora, Noc mezi námi, Jowie, Please help me!; animator, drawer, musician, poet, lyricist, and singer, director of the ballet project Graffiti

DAVID VRBÍK, * 1973
music composer, sound engineer at the Archa Theatre and the Estates Theatre, author of music for Antena cat and the garden Figures in a landscape by Pierre Nadaud, Trick neck 69, member of the experimental group Tow


October 16, 2009 > 18:00 > KAREL PRAGER > LEGACY AND WORK > DISCUSSION > ROSTISLAV ŠVÁCHA > JAN LÍNEK > JAN LOUDA > MODERATED BY VLADIMÍR BROŽ
Thematic discussion dedicated to the controversial architect Karel Prager, the context of the time in which he created, his realized and unrealized projects, concepts, and his legacy for the 21st century.
guests:

ROSTISLAV ŠVÁCHA, Doc., PhDr., * 1952
historian and theorist of art and architecture; worked as an editor at the Odeon publishing house; since 1985 a researcher at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences; lectures on the history of architecture at Palacký University in Olomouc and at AVU in Prague; published books – From Modernism to Functionalism, The architecture of new Prague, Karel Teige, Lomené hranaté a obloukové tvary, Czech Cubist Architecture 1911-1923

JAN LÍNEK, * 1943
architect, worked with Karel Prager in the Gama studio; since 1970 collaborated with V. Milunić, founded his own architectural studio L&P in 1990

JAN LOUDA, * 1949
architect and designer, collaborated with Karel Prager; one of the partners of the Gama studio founded by Karel Prager

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