bureš+bureš at FA. A new studio with overlap into research, media, and the city

"We perceive the school as a space for critical dialogue and collective searching, not as an institution producing ready-made solutions. For us, the studio is a safe environment for discussion, cooperation, and working with mistakes, in which both the instructors and students learn from each other and together formulate questions and positions toward contemporary architecture," say Petr Bureš and Jan Bureš.

In the summer semester titled "longhouse," the bureš+bureš studio will focus on the theme of the linear house as a specific urban structure. Using selected Prague buildings and other references, they will focus on how linear structures shape the city and how they work with scale, rhythm, the ground floor, and permeability. Based on the findings gained, students will then design their own linear house for a specific Prague plot. The studio will include field walks around Prague, work with models, architectural photography, and historical documents, with an emphasis on the theoretical anchoring of the design and its analytical part. A key theme of the studio will be the search for a contemporary language, morphology, and materiality of Prague, or rather Czech, architecture.

Petr Bureš (1990) graduated from the Architecture Studio II at UMPRUM under the guidance of Ivan Kroupa and Jana Moravcová. He completed an internship in the studio of Dominik Lang and Edith Jeřábková at UMPRUM and an international internship at MFA Goldsmiths in London. In 2020, he co-founded the Amulet studio, which focuses on the design of smaller structures, architectural competitions, and theoretical research.

Jan Bureš (1996) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology. Professionally, he worked in the Brno-based PEER studio and as an editor for earch magazine. He has published in several Czech and international media outlets. In addition to design and writing, he is involved in documentation and popularization activities. Together with architectural historian Adam Štěch, he founded the Modernist Prague platform, focused on the documentation and popularization of Prague's interwar architecture, and the lecture series "Půllitr architektury" (A Pint of Architecture, together with Adam Štěch and Matěj Beránek), which brings the debate about architecture into an informal environment outside of academic institutions.

The theme of 1990s architecture is one of several connecting topics for the bureš+bureš duo. Petr Bureš focused on it in the podcast series "Mluvící objekty" (Speaking Objects, together with Alžběta Žabová and Jonáš Richter), while Jan Bureš addressed it through the publication "DEVADE: Prague Architecture Between Rigidity and Disco" (together with Matěj Beránek, Adéla Vaculíková, and Radek Šrettr Úlehla), which is accompanied by an exhibition of the same name at Prague’s CAMP.

"Through the 'emerging architects' format, we want to systematically support the rising generation of architects while bringing new approaches and topics into the curriculum. The great interest and high quality of the applications please me, and I see them as confirmation of the quality and openness of the faculty, which we have long strived for," says Dalibor Hlaváček, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the CTU. The selection process is intended for architects with a starting practice and a minimum of three years of experience in the field of architecture and urbanism.