Oct 5, 2017
Architects Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis from Portugal will present some of the most relevant projects of their studio Spaceworkers®. They will focus on the specifics of the place and its urban and social context. They will describe how to intervene in a territory with a very rural and unconsolidated matrix, and to evolve in the conceptual and formal research of projects. In the lecture called "The place and the context of an opportunity to generate architecture", they will share their vision and how do they develop architecture in territories less "urban". Marques and Dinis believe that architecture should be the driving force for a more balanced and qualified landscape. They will present different approaches with a common aim - to create a pragmatic and emotional architecture capable of generating a new identity for the place, and be a new stage for the needs of everyday life. Spaceworkers® is an architecture and design studio located in Paredes in northern Portugal, directed by architects Henrique Marques and Rui Dinis. The studio based its practice on the exploration and constant search of new paradigms of contemporary architecture in order to achieve a close relation between the form and emotions. Spaceworkers® received several important awards, for example in 2017 they won the Building of the Year Award 2017 promoted by the site Archdaily. They will come to Prague from Munich where they will receive another award for their work.
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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