14TH BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE – 2 X 100 MIL. M²

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14TH BIENNALE OF ARCHITECTURE IN VENICE
2 X 100 MIL. M² – THE COLLECTIVE DREAM

Place: Pavilon Cecoslovacchia, Giardini,Venice, 7 June – 23 November 2014
Curator: Martin Hejl, Kolmo.eu
My cooperation during the studies on Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava,
with Faculty of Art and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec; ; D+G+G; Cyril Říha; Kolouch; Tomáš Džadoň; Alexej Klyuykov
Organizers: The National Gallery in Prague, Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

The Czech exhibition, entitled “2 x 100 mil. m2” and prepared in conformity with the concept of the main curator of this yearʼs Venice Biennale of Architecture, architect Rem Koolhaas, presents the architecture of large housing projects realized between 1914 and 2014 both on the territory of the former Czechoslovakia and its successional states. It is the result of an extensive research to which the team of authors, headed by architect Martin Hejl, subjected the space of more than two hundred million square meters of residential space realized in the country during the past century.

In particular, via axonometric views of the factory town of Zlín, the socialist city of Ostrava-Poruba, the new face of the city of Most, the Bratislava housing estate Petržalka, the housing estate Ohrada in Prague and the typical post-1989 small satellite town of Jesenice, built in the extravilane of the village of the same name. The rest of the housing is documented by plans of 56 large Czech, Moravian, Silesian and Slovak cities printed on the map ofCzechoslovakia, which basically occupies the entire space of the pavilion. Thanks to the fact that the construction from the period between 1914 and 2014 is executed in white colour contrasting with the grey tone illustrating the previous construction layers, visitors can get a rather precise idea of the massive scale of construction realized in our countries, at least as far as apartments are concerned.