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“Šumperk house”: We just improved it

Wilhelmstraße 44 / Eingang Mohrenstraße 44 10117 Berlin - zum Stadtplan
Montag 22.05.2017 - Anfangszeit: 19:00 Uhr
Kategorie: Kunst
Tomáš Pospěch documented more than 550 “Šumperk houses” out of nearly 5000 which were built. The first “Šumperk house” was constructed by the planner Josef Vaněk fifty years ago, during autumn in the year 1966. It became the most common type of house in the Czech Republic and reminds us of a time when you couldn’t order an architect or hire a firm and you would have difficulties with obtaining materials, so people were building their houses themselves. The lecture is part of the series “Interventions in Architecture”.

The “Šumperk house” was loved and hated. In rural areas it was considered a successful modernization, by others it was considered kitsch. It met expectations of modern living, but architects distanced themselves from it, and conservationists warned that it spoils the appearance of the Czech villages. Nearly 5000 were built, but few complied with the plan, and in the subsequent years their appearance were changed. So which is the original?

Tomáš Pospěch’s project started with a simple fascination by the series as such, the photographs were 2016 published in a book.

The lecture by Tomáš Pospěch will be in English.

von: berlin.czech.

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