Jubilee 15th year of the Festival of Architecture Day with subtitle The architecture This year will take place under the auspices of a woman's perspective. It will also commemorate several anniversaries - of architects Bohuslav Fuchs, Bohumír Kozák and Josef Gočár. You can participate in more than 140 cities throughout the country during 450 events. One of the traditionally involved places are Čelákovice and Volmanova vila. Our carefully curated program will offer lectures, film screenings as part of the sister festival Film and Architecture from October 2 to October 8, 2025, as well as many inspiring meetings.
The festival takes place with the support of the city of Čelákovice. Thank you.
OUR TIP - ADAM ŠTĚCH 8/10 Heroines of modern and postmodern
lecture by journalist and architectural historian Adam Štěch on the influence of surrealism on architecture and design of the 20th century.
From brutalist icons to postmodern visions. Věra Machoninová and Alena Šrámková through the view of art historian Markéta Čejková. The lecture will be devoted to two exceptional women of Czech architecture, whose work transcended the norms of the time and social barriers. The topic will be both realized constructions and unrealized designs, sources of inspiration and circumstances of professional application in the context of post-war Czechoslovakia. They will also discuss the context of their cooperation within teams and partner pairs, the influence of the political situation on architectural activity and the issue of gender in the professional environment. Consideration will also be given to the value of their works and the need for their protection.
Entrance fee 100 CZK
Everyone knows the names Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe or Marcel Breuer, but what about the artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis or the textile artist Gunta Stölzl? The Bauhaus was the home of the avant-garde and the cradle of modern architecture, but mainly male figures are associated with it, and women are often neglected despite their unquestionable influence. Director Susanne Radelhof tells the story of a famous art school with a moving fate from the point of view of personalities for whom the situation was even more complicated. The documentary is a tribute to the forgotten women of the Bauhaus and shows their struggle to assert themselves in fields dominated by men.
Germany, 2019
43 mins
German, Czech subtitles
Entrance fee 100 CZK
The first seasonal residential exhibition in Volman's Villa presents the Czech artist of the younger generation, Pavel Dušek, in a new exhibition cycle organized in cooperation with Trafo Gallery. Through his works, the author freely refers to functionalist architecture, where his reliefs respond to the villas of the world-famous architect Le Corbusier, but he is also significantly inspired by the design and colour of the 1970s and 1980s. In his work, the artist intuitively responds to what the architects Janů and Štursa covertly put in Volman's villa - the atmosphere between functionalism and dream, between geometric logic and surreal landscape. His reliefs open a dialogue between architecture and art, which the viewer completes according to his own imagination. Sunday 5.10. The installation will be guided by the author Pavel Dušek.
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The personal and professional affection of benefactor Truus Schröder-Schräder and Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld led to the creation in 1924 of the House of Rietveld and Schröder, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. The documentary is a cross-section of the work of this iconic designer, a member of the art movement De Stijl, with special attention being paid to the aforementioned first realization. The house was a great experiment resulting from mutual inspiration and close cooperation between the two partners, the principles used here by Rietveld subsequently used in the creation of his other works.
Netherlands, 2024
53 mins
Dutch, Czech subtitles
Entrance fee 100 CZK
Architectural historian, columnist and curator Adam Štěch about the exceptional works of architects and designers of the 20th century. In his travels for modernist architecture and design, he has discovered a number of remarkable realizations that he will present through author's photographs and personal experiences. Although these fields were predominantly dominated by men, women made significant inroads into the development of these disciplines. The lecture will bring closer to the works of less and more well-known authors — for example, the idealistically conceived mountain complexes of architect and designer Charlotte Perriand, the brutalist villa of the Brazilian architect Chu Ming Silveira, the lyrical chalet of the Swiss Lisbeth Sachs, the intact preserved Milanese apartment from the 1950s of the completely forgotten architect Eugenie Alberti Reggio, own curia The apartment of the postmodern pioneer Trix Haussmann or the tin house of the Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa.
Entrance fee 100 CZK
