Archtherapy - lecture by Projectile architects

As part of the festival 4+4+4 Days in Motion, three lectures of the Circle and one spring architectural walk took place in an abandoned dental clinic on Jungmannova Street. The essence of the Circle lies in the fact that it does not behave statically and does not have a permanent venue for organizing lectures. I can randomly recall five different places where their lectures took place - Nod Roxy, Ponec Theater, Indigo Café, Preslova Space, and a laundry in Bubenči.
After a two-year block of Swiss lectures, Czech architects were once again up next. The dark horse of the weekly cycle was supposed to be Martin Rajniš, who had already lectured as part of the Circle before - it was at the very first public event of the Circle on March 1, 2001.
The abandoned dental clinic reminded me of a former Jewish school in Berlin, where one part of the Berlin Biennale had ended two months ago. The idea occurred to me to fill an abandoned building in the city center with art to the brim. Upon entering, a narrow corridor defined by plastic curtains led you to a small courtyard and mainly to the lecture hall, where everything was unconventional. The trio serving at the bar in the back of the hall was dressed in pajamas and adorned with bizarre accessories. The peeling ceiling was supported by shiny metal columns, the bar counter was complemented by mattress beds, and the DJ additionally lightened the lecture with soft background music. When the technology failed, the speaker did not hesitate to improvise with a broomstick and used it as a pointer.
The work of Projektil is so well-known that at first it was mainly about mentioning what new developments were happening with libraries. Some time had passed since the competitive win, and one of the libraries was already standing in its raw construction. Brychta spent a lot of time introducing collaborations with various artists. That Projektil is not an office of just a few libraries was ultimately demonstrated by an unknown realization of an ecological center in Sluňákov or a competition project for an opera in Linz, Austria. When asked from the audience whether they had a guaranteed recipe for winning competitions, Brychta responded that they don't win that often, which amused everyone present. Another comment aimed at the apt name of the office, after he had "lightning-fast" presented his projects.
At the end of the lecture, Roman Brychta baptized the new two-part anthology of the Circle with beer under the subtitle Across Swiss Architecture. The seventy-page booklet is dedicated almost entirely to Swiss creators who came to Prague to lecture between 2003-05, with two exceptions (J.Kaplický and E.Jiřičná).
People used to world-famous lectures, where a communicatively skilled star presents their latest projects and, after a zero response from the audience, everyone goes home, might have been surprised by the change. No one was thrown out after the event (which had never happened at any of the Circle's events, but you had to move to nearby pubs after it ended), and you could debate here for long hours. It was a social event where the lecture was just one item on the agenda. Since the cycle took place as part of an international theater festival exhibiting art, the audience and the bar patrons were not made up exclusively of architects, but also people from other artistic fields.