The lecture in architecture is a cycle of six talks that presents architecture as an integral part of our lives. This year's cycle will focus on the architecture of buildings. More than on typology, it will pay attention to the cultural and social dimensions of architecture: Can architecture be activist? What should a public building represent? How should we treat cultural heritage, or how intimate can the relationship between an architect and an investor be?
Rostislav Švácha DE-SACRALIZATION OF SOKOLOVENS Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:00 PM in the Štukový Hall of the Znojmo Beseda
The architecture of sokolovens from the last third of the 19th century resembles temples, as if sokol exercises also served a sacred ritual function. The temple-like character of the first sokolovens is also well expressed in the rhetoric of their descriptions in period newspapers. However, in the 1920s, a turnaround occurs and sokolovens begin to resemble factories. The lecture will arrive at the question of whether this architectural transformation was also reflected in the change of ideological content of sokol exercises.
The cycle is organized by the association Umění do Znojma in collaboration with Original Regional Architecture (ORA) with financial support from the South Moravian Region, the Czech Architecture Foundation, and the city of Znojmo.
Tickets will be on sale at the venue. Lecture 100 CZK / students and seniors 50 CZK
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