How we wanted to live

The exhibition is organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the republic with the support of the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic. It will present the theme of building society through housing construction in the first decades of Czechoslovakia's existence and the contemporary attitudes and approaches of Czechoslovak society to the topic of housing based on monitoring individual subthemes: state housing policy, social housing, discussions about housing, cooperative housing construction, private rental housing, experiments in housing construction, collective housing and collective houses, corporate housing construction, prefabrication and standardization, and housing scarcity. The authors of the texts are Dagmar Černoušková, Jindřich Chatrný, Hubert Guzik, Jakub Potůček, Klára Eliášová, Eva Novotná, Lucie Valdhansová, and Ivan Wahla, and the curators of the exhibition are Michal Kohout and David Tichý.

meeting with journalists: October 17 at 18:00, GJF
opening of the exhibition: October 17 at 19:00, GJF
conference: October 18, 9:00–15:30, Academy of Public Investment, Pařížská 4, Prague 1, program to download ► here 
debate and book launch: November 7 at 18:00, GJF
guests: Daniela Grabmülerová (MMR ČR), Matúš Dulla (FA ČVUT), Jakub Potůček (VCPD FA ČVUT), David Tichý (Center for Housing Quality, FA ČVUT)
moderator: Michal Kohout (Center for Housing Quality, FA ČVUT)