70. Printed Architecture: Karolina Jirkalová

Vladimír's bookshop Serius and the PLAC association, with financial support from the Czech Architecture Foundation and the statutory city of Jablonec nad Nisou, cordially invite you to the 70th lecture in the Printed Architecture series.

Architectural historian Karolina Jirkalová will present the publication Czech Architecture in the Interregnum: From Perestroika to the New Order

The book deals with the mutual relationships, overlaps and conflicts between Czech architecture, politics and society at the end of state socialism and in the first years after the Velvet Revolution. It deals with the changing roles and positions of power of the individual actors in public debate and the construction process – architects, the state (authorities and legislation), investors and users, and last but not least, the supply sector, as well as their links, networks and coalitions. Although 1989 is undoubtedly a significant turning point, the continuities between the eras it separates are at least as strong as the discontinuities in the fields of architecture, urbanism, construction reality and housing policy, even if they have a different dynamic. Even historical discontinuities often have common content, just with opposite signs. The work attempts to capture and interpret the specific "interim" period of transformation in Czech architecture, which can be situated approximately between 1986 and 1994. Graphics by Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová, Richard Wilde (publikum.design).

Karolina Jirkalová, architectural historian, critic and editor, has been the in-house editor of Art Antiques magazine since 2007. Her research focuses on the recent history of architecture (especially housing) in a broad socio-political context. She publishes in scientific and professional journals, lectures externally and is involved in popularising the field.