The RCIH has prepared the book Fragments of Heritage, which maps the transformations of industrial architecture between 2020 and 2025

The publication Fragments of Heritage presents 31 projects for the new use of industrial buildings in the Czech Republic, implemented between 2020 and 2025. As the book's editor, Benjamin Fragner, explains: "the presented projects, in the widest possible selection, demonstrate the differences in the presented solutions, the authors' approach, and also the decisions as to which of the preserved layers is more essential, which part of the additional and later modifications and interventions is crucial and beneficial for the present." Industrial traces, which overlap, complement, and contradict each other over time—sometimes purely utilitarian, temporary, but also timeless, responding to the transformation of technology and architecture—are part of the atmosphere, development, stability, change, and memory. The authors of the presented projects also contributed to the book with their personal perspectives.

The book was produced with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Faculty of Architecture of the CTU in Prague as part of the project Industrial Architecture of the Second Half of the 20th Century: Extension, Transformation, and Identity (DH23P03OVV016) within the NAKI III programme for the support of applied research in national and cultural identity.

Fragments of Heritage: Transformations of Industrial Architecture 2020–2025

Editor: Benjamin Fragner

Editorial support: Jan Zikmund

Texts: Jiří Betlach, Lukáš Blažek, Benjamin Fragner, Martin Frei, Jan Hora, Filip Horatschke, Zdeněk Hromádka, David Richard Chisholm, Michal Ježek, Michal Juha, Robert Konieczny, Martin Kožnar, David Kraus, Martin Krupauer, Ondřej Králík, Daniel Labuzík, Kamil Mrva, Petr Pelčák, Josef Pleskot, Kateřina Pospiechová, Martin Prokš, Pavel Prouza, David Prudík, Marek Přikryl, Martin Rusina, Jan Schindler, Šárka Sodomková, Milan Starec, Milan Šindler, Milan Šraml, Martin Štrouf, Jan Topinka, Ondřej Tuček, Tereza Vojtěšková, Petr Všetečka, Jaromír Walter, Jan Zikmund

Cooperation: Jan Červinka

Peer reviews: Tereza Bartošíková, Martin Vonka

Copyediting: Irena Hlinková

Translation: Robin Cassling

Graphic design: Formall: Bára Kočí, Gabriel Fragner

Project visual style: Jan Forejt

Reproduction editing: Jiří Klíma

Project documentation editing: Jan Kuták

Production management: Gabriel Fragner

Production: Formall

Printing: Tiskárna Helbich

Published by: Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture, Research Centre for Industrial Heritage

ISBN 978-80-01-07457-2

340 pages

2025