guided tour (in Czech) start: in front of Palace Chicago (Národní třída) at 2 pm

24. 11. / llectures and book launch  (in Czech)   / 19:00  GJF   Josef Elster Karel Wolf  accompanying program of the exhibition

report by Czech TV   Commissioned by University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), the United States Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2021) brought unprecedented attention to wood-framed construction in American architecture, which had been largely overlooked by historical and contemporary discourse. This spring, UIC Faculty and Co-Curators Paul Andersen and Paul Preissner continue to explore the ubiquity and aesthetic power of this architectural element in three new iterations of ...

BOOK LAUNCH LECTURE BY LAURA J. PADGETT In this lecture Laura J. Padgett will speak about how she approaches her work and how she understands photography and its possible uses. She will concentrate on three bodies of work: her photographs of Haus Zumthor for “Thinking Architecture”, her book “Space over Time” and her most recent photographic series “Regenerating Permanence”, thereby respecting the different conditions of beginning the work to its production to its outcome. She will consider how we speak about photography and the ...

accompanying program of the exhibition about the work of J. J. Polívka (in Czech)

křest publikace se uskuteční 29. 11. v 18:00 v GJF knihu pokřtí Markéta Kaňková   Kniha Fenomén Jože Plečnik Miroslava Zelinského je už třetí publikací v řadě „Fenomén“ nakladatelství Grada. Její ambicí je představovat populárním způsobem významné architekty s českými kořeny nebo realizacemi na českém území. Zájemce právě dostává do ruky obrazově výpravnou publikaci o jednom z výjimečných zjevů evropské a také české, resp. československé architektury. Slovinec Jože Plečnik zanechal svou stopu ve Vídni a především v Lublani, ...

Spolu se společností Halla Vás zveme na debatu s autory českého pavilonu na Expo 2020 v Dubaji architekty Jindřichem Ráftlem a Janem Tůmou z ateliéru JinJan. Představí celkovou koncepci pavilonu a celou cestu od první skicy až po dokončení realizace pavilonu na dubajském výstavišti, kterému se budou také věnovat.  A můžete se těšit na představení jejich výběru 10 nejzajímavějších pavilonů! Studio JinJan vzniklo spojením ateliérů Formosa AA s R/FRM ve kterých oba architekti dříve působili. ...

Jaroslav Josef Polívka (1886–1960) is a forgotten figure of the Czech and the global building culture of the 20 th century. Only recently he has been rediscovered as a close associate of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the founder of modern American architecture. Polívka’s talent for pushing the technical limits of building structures as well as a natural ability to connect people have significantly contributed to building both European and Czech modern avant-garde architecture. He brought an unprecedented degree of visionariness and ...

presentation of the exhbition from 2020  

In a situation impacted by demolitions and the physical deterioration of industrial objects and by the pressure to demolish and to free up land for new construction but one in which also there has been increasing recognition over the years of other values –   the meaning of a place the remarkable qualities of form the aim of the new programme,   the architecture of conversions represents the consequence and outcome of a search for the right starting points, finding a balance between heritage protection, new creative interventions, ...