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This exhibition, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Adolf Loos, is intended to recall the personality, work, and underlying ideas in the oeuvre of this major architect, whose legacy is still vivid and inspirational. Though Loos did not regard himself as an architect, his opinions and even more his built work influenced several generations of his contemporaries and successors in the architectural profession.

The exhibition is organised by the City of Prague Museum in cooperation with the National Technical Museum, where the exhibition is installed.

You can join the streamed opening through these websites:
http://www.ntm.cz/adolf-loos-svetoobcan
http://en.muzeumprahy.cz/adolf-loos-world-citizen/

The opening will have two parts. The first part begins at 5 p.m. with a “house concert” from the Müller Villa featuring the Bennewitz Quartet, and continues with the intriguing documentary “The Most Beautiful House.” In the second part, we will give you a virtual welcome at the National Technical Museum.

Detailed program

Research Centre for Industrial Heritage FA CTU Prague, Vestiges of Industry Platform and Jaroslav Fragner Gallery invite you to the exhibition

place form programme
/ CONVERSIONS
industrial contexts

In a situation impacted by demolitions and the physical deterioration of industrial objects and by the pressure to demolish and to free up land for new construction but one in which also there has been increasing recognition over the years of other values –

the meaning of a place,
the remarkable qualities of form,
the aim of the new programme,

the architecture of conversions represents the consequence and outcome of a search for the right starting points, finding a balance between heritage protection, new creative interventions, and pragmatic recycling, an opportunity for bringing new ambitions to life, applying an artistic intention, and fulfilling business objectives, and a spontaneous effort to preserve what can still be preserved. It is a response to the changing atmosphere in society, a way of relating to the immediate environment, a more general tendency to create architectural work within a specific and often contentious context.

The exhibition presents the results of projects conducted over the course of five years (2015–2020) and ties in with previous events organised over the past thirty years, from the first Industrial Architecture / Unused Heritage exhibition to 12 Years Later, Vestiges of Industry, and What We Ourselves Demolished, to the exhibitions of the architecture of conversion organised in 2005 and 2014.

The exhibition will be open in the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery according to the current epidemiological situation from 22. 12. 2020 to 14. 2. 2021.

Outcome of the project Industrial Architecture: Understanding Monuments of Industrial Heritage as Technical-Architectural Works and as a Source of Identity of a Place supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic under its NAKI II (National and Cultural Identity) Applied Research Programme (DG16P02H001).

Organisers: Research Centre for Industrial Heritage FA CTU Prague and Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in cooperation with The Technical Monuments Committee and Vestiges of Industry
Curator: Benjamin Fragner
Collaboration: Dan Merta, Jan Červinka, Jan Zikmund
Production: Klára Pučerová, Gabriel Fragner, Klára Bártová
Graphic Design: Jan Forejt (Formall)
Installation: Tomáš Valušek, Marek Majnuš
Screening: Jan Zikmund
Editing of drawing documentation: Jan Kuták

More information can be found at Jaroslav Fragner Gallery or at Research Centre for Industrial Heritage.

Students can apply from 5. 10. to 6. 12. 2020 through the Mobility application where they fill in information about themselves, select three preferred universities for their study tirp, register for language tests and finally send the application. Attention, without sending the application it is not possible to approve the trip or continue the selection procedure! Students who are in the follow-up master's degree program at the time of departure can apply.

If you need more information, please, reach out to Bc. Jarmila Vokounová at jarmila.vokounova@fa.cvut.cz.