agenda

Cities around the world face huge but very similar challenges - from elderly loneliness to urban flooding to polluted air.

The UN Agenda for Sustainable Development 2030 comes up with a framework solution to many of these problems. The key role of cities and communities is specifically described in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 11. In our exhibition, however, you will find that solutions to problems in cities are not limited to achieving Objective 11, but are associated with many others. The Nordic countries are big supporters of the UN 2030 Agenda and have come up with many solutions that they can contribute to achieving its Sustainable Development Goals. This exhibition presents some of the solutions that Nordic architects and engineers are already working on in the areas of health, mobility, reducing the carbon footprint, the circular economy, or urban resilience. The Northerners are on the path to sustainable development and we hope you will be inspired by them!

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

The Department of Building Theory is hosting another one-day reVision Typology conference at the Faculty of Architecture of CTU in Prague. This year's 4th year – PARALELL WORLDS – will focus on new approaches in building design with respect to their different end-users - lay and professional public as well as other construction actors. The aim is to present the diversity of typology and the reflection of the requirements of different users of buildings when designing them.

The FA teachers, along with selected guests, will present contributions from school, health, social service buildings, cultural, residential, administrative, as well as public space and sustainability in architecture. We also invite PhD students to attend the conference who are researching the needs of building users and their influence on building design.

For information about previous years visit the conference website reVision Typology.