O užitku a škodlivosti ̶h̶i̶s̶t̶o̶r̶i̶e̶/teorie pro život
On the occasion of the publication of a large selection of texts on architecture – the book Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 – a debate will take place at the VI PER Gallery about the role of theoretical reflection on architecture. The editorially curated selection of texts, which includes only works by active, well-known architects, directly invites discussion about what specific genre writing about architecture is and how it differs from or overlaps with architectural theory. Who (and why) writes about architecture today? What specific genres of writing revolve around architecture? Do texts influence architecture, or does the process only run in the opposite direction? One of the editors of the book, architectural historian Rostislav Švácha, philosopher and architectural theorist Marian Zervan, and architecture theorist Monika Mitášová will come to discuss the usefulness and harmfulness of theory for architects and architecture.
Rostislav Švácha is an architectural historian and university educator. He serves as the head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc and is a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. He is the author of many articles and studies and has published or edited several books. Recently, for example, Panel Housing 1: Fifty Housing Estates in the Czech Lands and Panel Housing 2: The History of Housing Estates in the Czech Lands 1945–1989 (2016 and 2017), The History of Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000 (2017), and the recently published anthology Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 (2018).
Marian Zervan served from 1993 to 2003 as the head of the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University, where he became a professor of the history of art in 2010. He focuses on architectural theory and sacred iconography. As a professor, he also acts as the guarantor of master's and doctoral studies in the field of history and theory of visual arts and architecture at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Fine Arts University in Bratislava, where he teaches the history of architecture, the history of architectural theories and criticism, contemporary architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics.
Monika Mitášová is engaged in the history of theories, contemporary architectural theories, and the interpretation of architecture. She has worked at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and now teaches at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University. She is the editor of two books of texts and interviews on American critical and projective architecture Oxymoron and Pleonasm I and II, co-author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971–2011: Texts, Interviews, Documents, which she compiled together with Jiří Ševčík, and a pair of books dedicated to Vladimír Dedeček from 2017.
Jana Tichá deals with modern and contemporary architecture in broader cultural contexts. Since 1996, she has been running the publishing house Zlatý řez and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University. She is the author of several book publications, including a guide to contemporary architecture in Prague PRG 2021 (2007, with Irena Fialová), or Space and Place: Architectural Creation in the Territory of the Czech Republic 1989–2014. She has editorially prepared several thematic anthologies of contemporary architectural theory, the most recent of which is Architecture and Landscape (2017).
The discussion will include the presentation and launch of the publication Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011.
Moderated by: Jiří Tourek
Organized by: VI PER Gallery and the publishing house Zlatý řez.
Rostislav Švácha is an architectural historian and university educator. He serves as the head of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts at Palacký University in Olomouc and is a research worker at the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. He is the author of many articles and studies and has published or edited several books. Recently, for example, Panel Housing 1: Fifty Housing Estates in the Czech Lands and Panel Housing 2: The History of Housing Estates in the Czech Lands 1945–1989 (2016 and 2017), The History of Art in the Czech Lands 800–2000 (2017), and the recently published anthology Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011 (2018).
Marian Zervan served from 1993 to 2003 as the head of the Department of Theory of Architecture, Art and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. Since 2006, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University, where he became a professor of the history of art in 2010. He focuses on architectural theory and sacred iconography. As a professor, he also acts as the guarantor of master's and doctoral studies in the field of history and theory of visual arts and architecture at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Fine Arts University in Bratislava, where he teaches the history of architecture, the history of architectural theories and criticism, contemporary architecture, philosophy, and aesthetics.
Monika Mitášová is engaged in the history of theories, contemporary architectural theories, and the interpretation of architecture. She has worked at the Center for Theoretical Studies of Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and now teaches at the Faculty of Arts of Trnava University. She is the editor of two books of texts and interviews on American critical and projective architecture Oxymoron and Pleonasm I and II, co-author of the anthology Czech and Slovak Architecture 1971–2011: Texts, Interviews, Documents, which she compiled together with Jiří Ševčík, and a pair of books dedicated to Vladimír Dedeček from 2017.
Jana Tichá deals with modern and contemporary architecture in broader cultural contexts. Since 1996, she has been running the publishing house Zlatý řez and teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University. She is the author of several book publications, including a guide to contemporary architecture in Prague PRG 2021 (2007, with Irena Fialová), or Space and Place: Architectural Creation in the Territory of the Czech Republic 1989–2014. She has editorially prepared several thematic anthologies of contemporary architectural theory, the most recent of which is Architecture and Landscape (2017).
The discussion will include the presentation and launch of the publication Euro-American Architectural Thought 1936–2011.
Moderated by: Jiří Tourek
Organized by: VI PER Gallery and the publishing house Zlatý řez.
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