Students from five architecture schools in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands worked under the guidance of Winy Maas. Together they have formulated ideas for the future of the Czech Republic.

Students from five architecture schools in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands worked under the guidance of Winy Maas. Together they have formulated ideas for the future of the Czech Republic and now they will present their projects to the public. The exhibition will open on 31 May at the FA.

Program:
15.00 Tour of the model, interviews with guests, public debate
18.00 Reception

The exhibition can be visited until 26 June daily from 9 am to 7 pm, free admission.

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the death of architect Jan Blažej Santini-Aichl. The significant anniversary did not escape the attention of the leading expert of this artist, Professor Pavel Kalina. In collaboration with foreign colleagues, he has prepared an international conference in Rome. 

Conference programme day one:
6 June 2023, 5pm

Institutional greetings

• Antonella Polimeni, Rector of La Sapienza University, Rome
• Martin Procházka, Rector of Palacký University in Olomouc
• Jan Kohout, Ambassador of the Czech Republic in Italy
• Orazio Carpenzano, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of La Sapienza
• Petra Březáčková, Director of the Czech Centre in Rome

Prolog

• Pavel Kalina, Augusto Roca De Amicis - reasons and challenges of the conference

First part

• Paolo Portoghesi (Univerzita La Sapienza, Rome) - opening lecture
• Pavel Kalina (Faculty of Architecture CTU, Praha) - Santini in the critical tradition of the 20th century
• Augusto Roca De Amicis (Univerzita La Sapienza, Rome) - Italian components in Santini's architecture

Conference programme day two:
7 June 2023, 10 am

Second part

• Richard Biegel (Charles University, Prague) - Mathey and Santini: the roots and context of Santini's early work
• Michael Young (University of Connecticut) - Architecture as Language - Redux: Santini and the Macaroni
• Ulrich Fürst (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) - The Monastery Church in Rajhrad - Institutional Identity as a Problem of Monastic Sacred Architecture
• Johana Bronková (Vatican Radio, Rome) - Forms of space: J. B. Santini and F. Borromini

Discussion

Third part
starts at 3:30 pm

• Marisa Tabarrini (Univerzita La Sapienza, Rome) - Santini, Jean-Baptiste Mathey and the studio of Abraham Paris in Rome
• Jakub Řehák (Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU, Prague) - Water and ventilation system of the monastery in Plasy according to Santini's original design
• Madlein Riedenklau, Basilej - Commemorant plurima manuscripta et monumenta: A Conversation on the Glory of God and Sedlec or the Genesis of the "lieu de memoire" through rhetoric in architecture and panegyric
• Jiří Kroupa (Masaryk University, Brno) - Stereotomic Illusions and Light as Material in Santini's Work in Moravia
• Irena Bukačová (Museum and Gallery of the Northern Pilsen Region in Mariánská Týnice) - The Fate of Santini's Works in the Czech Lands on the Example of the Pilgrimage Site of Mariánská Týnice in Western Bohemia

Final discussion

The conference is open to the public.