Mar 2, 2017
Cities are where most of us spend the majority of our working lives. Adding to them and offering solutions for their densification, particularly housing, is one of the most common tasks we undertake in architectural practice. Indeed, housing is the largest component (70%) of the built fabric of any city and the need to accommodate changing housing needs and growing populations is a issue European cities continue to face is different ways. Drawing upon the recent work of Sergison Bates architects, this lecture will consider strategies for dealing with the current and future needs of the contemporary European city. Together with Stephen Bates, Jonathan Sergison is the founding partner of a renowned architectonic office Sergison Bates Architects. Their projects are able to include all levels of architecture and urbanism within their scope – from family houses, residential and public buildings, to urban planning projects. Jonathan Sergison deals with theory of architecture, too. Before the foundation of his own architectonic practice, he worked with David Chipperfield. He taught and lectured at several universities; today he is a professor at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (CH). sergisonbates.com
A civic association KRUH (Circle) was founded in 2001 by a group of architecture students at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Focus of our activities lies in an ongoing cycle of lectures on architecture held by leading Czech and foreign architects and architecture critics. In addition to that, we have organized excursions to contemporary architectural realisations and film festivals. During ten years of our activity, we have provided almost 200 lectures (e.g. series of lectures 'Across Swiss Architecture' – in cooperation with a Swiss foundation Pro Helvetia and Swiss Embassy in Prague), three excursions abroad, two film festivals on architecture, an exhibition, and published four collective anthologies with texts on architecture. All our activities gained both a favourable public response (200 – 500 visitors per lecture, 2000 visitors at film festival) and a response of professional press (awarded Architekt magazine prize in 2003). So far we have lined up lectures by significant figures of contemporary architecture eg. Aaron Betsky, Eva Jiřičná, Jan Kaplický, Luigi Snozzi, Mario Botta, Dietmar Eberle, Francisco Mangado and as well many starting Czech architects. In all we do our goal is to create a continuous dialogue about contemporary issues among architects, architecture theorists and public. Our target group consists of architecture students, architects, construction engineers, humanities students and last but not least the general public. This year our programme is focused on lectures and presentation of recent projects, which came out from important architecture competitions in Czech Republic. The aim of the project is to show what is happening right now in architecture, what is new and progressive for architects, and how they deal with the idea of competition.
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