Oct 4, 2018
Prof. Hans Kollhoff is a distinguished German architect, author of Berlin´s CHB building in Potsdamer Platz that became the dominant feature of the unified city, and this is how he comments on his upcoming lecture: “My generation has gone through a long and tiresome process of recalling architecture as a metiér (craft), something that goes beyond individual taste, style or vision. The same way societies have a past, present and possibly future, cities and architecture are not simply results of an inventive genius. Throughout history, the metiér of architecture provided the individual architect with rules of how to do a thing well, and experiences of how to discover the potential of a given task, site and even budget in order to find its adequate form and finally its tectonic coherence. This I would call architecture.” The work of Kollhoff Architekten studio represents an architecture that is rooted in European tradition and pays respect to nature and surrounding landscape. It is known for its classical building style using traditional materials and traditional methods. In the period of 1987-2012, Prof. Hans Kollhoff was teaching architecture at the prestigious ETH Zürich university.
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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