Oct 5, 2017
German architect Thomas Burlon will present the work of a progressive studio Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon. In his lecture, he will speak about the transformation of monument preservation. Architectural preservation is strongly connected to a historical perspective. It seems that there is a certain perception of where to draw the line that defines what should be preserved or not. Over time this line has broken down to the point of ruin. After statements such as „preservation is overtaking us“ by Rem Koolhaas or books like „Tabula Plena“ of Bryony Roberts and „Experimental Preservation“ of Otero-Pailos, Langdalen and Arrhenius, preservation is no longer perceived as a retroactive act but starts becoming an open field for more progressive ideas. In this context, the work of Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon questions the meaning and perception of preservation, proposing new solutions that surpass the current assessment of existing buildings based on their historical and archeological value. Together with Arno Brandlhuber and Markus Emde, Thomas Burlon has been managing architectonic studio Brandlhuber+ in Berlin since 2009. Their most significant projects in Berlin include reconstruction of a brutalist Church of St. Agnes and its conversion to a gallery for which they received Architekturpreis Berlin, or a house on Brunnenstrasse which is the seat of their office, and a gallery in the city center. They also made a radical transformation of an industrial building Antivilla near Berlin which draw attention with its concrete façade and knocked holes instead of windows. Moreover, the disposition of the building is changeable from 60 to 230 m2 of used area.
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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