Dec 6, 2018
The Cadaval & Solà-Morales studio was founded in New York City in 2003 and later on, in 2005, moved to Barcelona and Mexico City. It operates as a laboratory in which research and development constitute key elements of the design process. The studio aims to create intelligent design solutions across different scales, from large projects to small buildings, from objects to city fractions. In his lecture, Eduardo Cadaval will outline how his studio´s work is influenced by synthetic architecture. He will use examples ranging from small-scale buildings to extensive urbanistic studies designed for two completely different continents, America and Europe, in order to demonstrate how the studio responds to challenges by maximum simplification of each project. Cadaval & Solà-Morales studio has won numerous awards and its work has been widely exhibited in Europe and elsewhere, a notable example of which was its presentation at the Venice Biennale in 2016.
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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