Nov 1, 2018
“Making architecture in a refugee camp or in a war-torn area requires the ability to combine functionality with design, utility with beauty, affordability with excellence.” Raul Pantaleo is a co-founder of TAMassociati studio headquartered in Venice, with offices in Bologna, Trieste and Paris. In their work they are primarily preoccupied with issues of sustainability and they often engage in social and humanitarian projects. The studio is best-known for its cooperation with Emergency – an Italian non-governmental organization that provides necessary assistance to people living in war zones. TAMassociati envisage architecture as a service to the common good, capable of increasing the social and environmental capital while curbing social marginalization and exclusion. Among other projects TAMassociati cooperated with Italian architect Renzo Piano in building a paediatric hospital in Uganda.
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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