As if we were at the end or the beginning... The progress of tabloid journalism, atmospheric overwhelming, the stress of society and the inequality of aspects of global existence are forcing various forums to formulate increasingly harder elementary questions. The need for change collides with repeatedly posed permanent doubts and insecurities as well as with the discipline of architecture and its academic environment. The utter goal of the atelier is a permanent testing of new methods of designing and of architectural strategies, an investigation of the duality of the notions "architecture" versus "ambience” and review of architectural thinking in new beginnings. This means a completely new mind thread that provides the ability to define architecture as a 3D expression of the cultural image. In this concept, studio uses experiment as an instrument of architectural research. By the series of strategic attempts it redefines marginal and not clearly defined topics of current architecture and an acknowledged society. Studio offers new impulses of perception of the architecture as open and living discipline to the academic and everyday scene.
Head of Studio:
prof.ak.arch. Imrich Vaško
(*1958)
Leads the Studio III at the VŠUP in Prague since autumn 2011. He is a Graduate of Prof. Dušana Kuzmu (1983). After his return from Fulbright Scholarship at the Yale University in 1991 he set up the Laboratory of Architecture at the VŠVU. In 1998 he acted as a guest professor at the Rhode Island's School of Design. He lectured at Columbia University, Pratt Institute, RICE, Cornell University, CCNY, Universität für angewandte Kunst and Akademie der bildenden Kunst in Vienna. He also co-organized international architectural forums with Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Monika Mitášova, Marian Zervan and others. He co-operated with Jan Tabor and Wolf D. Prix on project WI:BRA. Amongst his focuses are conceptual and visionary architecture, urbanism, installations and he deals with the tendencies of central European architecture and the Parallel modernism. He is the co-author of joined exposition of Czech and Slovak republic at the 7th Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 2000. He also had a solo exhibition at the Fragner Gallery in 2001.
Assistant:
MgA. Martin Gsandtner, M.Sc.
(*1982)
2007 VŠVU, Laboratory of Architecture, Imrich Vaško
2010 dieAngewandte, Urban Strategies, Wolf D. Prix, Reiner Zettl Since 2008 he acts as an assistant in the Laboratory of Architecture under the lead of Imro Vaško. He exhibited as a co-author at KéK 100 rooms x 100 models (Budapest),he received awards as a co-author of Camera Obscura (Bratislava), Římske náměstí (Brno), Flower (Bratislava). He co-operated as a tutor at international workshops Theatre Architecture: Visons and Possibilities (Ljubljana), Urbanity: Twenty years later (Prague), Biennale "Austria Under Construction" (Venice). With Mortez Farhadian, he organized workshops of digital modelling (Bratislava).He also attended international workshops LaN-ON-SITE (Barcelona), LIFE in:formation (New York). Since 2011he acts as a professional assistant at Studio III and as a freelancer he works with architectural studios.
