The book on industrial architecture was baptized by the authors with metal shavings

Prague - The book on industrial architecture "Industriál_memory_origins" was launched today in Prague's Gallery Jiří Švestka by its authors Eva Dvořáková, Benjamin Fragner, and Tomáš Šenberger, who instead of champagne, opted for metal shavings for the christening. The publication was released to mark the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the Czech Technical University in Prague by the Titanic publishing house.
    The christening, or as the architects call it, the approval of the book, was not held in Gallery Jiří Švestka by coincidence. It is located in a building from 1927, which is an industrial structure in the purist style with a reinforced concrete construction.
    According to Šenberger, the book is not about the past, but rather a look into the future. The unusual title is intended to alert readers to this fact, as the authors, after long discussions, used "underscores," which became known to people only with the advent of computers along with the so-called "at sign."
    The authors present not only a historical overview of industrial architecture and a typology of these buildings in the book, but also write about new trends in the conception of industrial architecture. According to them, the publication also foreshadows the upcoming international biennale Industrial Traces, which will take place in the fall and will also be part of the celebrations of the CVUT anniversary. Its organizer is the Research Center for Industrial Heritage at CVUT in Prague, which also facilitated the creation of the publication.
    The center was established in 2002. It coordinates and methodically supports interdisciplinary collaboration among experts and institutions involved in the history, architecture, urban contexts, technology development, and ecological and economic perspectives of research, preservation, and new functional uses of technical monuments and industrial buildings and sites. It conducts research and compiles databases of industrial heritage sites in the Czech Republic in the context of global developments.