FA starts the summer semester with three new studios

The Faculty of Architecture is expanding the range of its studios. The aim is to bring diversity, dynamism and new perspectives to the academic environment. Both studios teach in the Architecture and Urbanism programme, where students develop theoretical and practical skills on actual assignments. 

Mark Přikryl's studio wants to build on a broad and open view of architecture. It will focus on high architecture, everyday life, and peripheries. Tereza Scheibová will be the assistant of the studio. 

Magdalena Havlová's studio plans to observe, analyze, and layer the new and the old. It will be interested in space—the apparent "nothing" between elements, their relationships, and their organization. Havlová and studio assistant Rudolf Nikerle see architecture as a stage for unpredictable events that would not have occurred without it or would tell a different story.

Valerio Morabito wants to offer students a combination of art and landscape, ecology and resilience, and a space to develop ideas for public parks, public spaces and green infrastructure. In the summer semester, the studio assignment will be to design a Prague art park for 2050.

Marek Přikryl

Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, with part of his studies spent at foreign universities in Mexico and Romania. Since 2011, he has been working in his practice as a co-founder of Prokš Přikryl Architects. The studio has won numerous awards, including the Architects' Grand Prix and a nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Among his notable projects are the conversion of the grain silo in Pardubice's Automatic Mills, the office extension in Vysoké Mýto and the biotope facilities in Honětice. The studio's work is regularly featured in domestic and international media.

Tereza Scheibová

She graduated from UMPRUM in Prague, where she studied at the Architecture Studio IV and completed an internship abroad at Politecnico di Milano. She has worked professionally in renowned Czech and foreign studios like Baukuh and 2A+P/A in Italy. She currently collaborates with the collcoll studio. Her projects include the reconstruction of the Little Buquoy Palace in Prague and the cultivation distillery in Svijanské Újezd, which received recognition in the Czech Architecture Award.

Magdalena Havlová

After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University under Michal Kuzemenský, she worked in architectural studios in Zurich, Berlin and Prague. Since 2019, she has been working with the Czech-Swiss studio Apropos Architects, where she focuses on apartment building projects. In 2023, she defended her doctoral degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with the thesis Our House: Affordable Housing Architecture, and a year later, she founded her studio, Not At All Office, dedicated to practice and research in architecture and related fields. She is a board member of the Register of Artistic Outputs Architecture segment. She focuses on photography, collective singing and performance in her free work.

Rudolf Nikerle

He graduated from Politecnico di Milano University in Italy, where he developed a passion for architectural theory. Together with his wife Margareta, he manages the Instagram profile _resources, which brings architectural theories to people. In his professional career, he has collaborated with several architectural studios. Currently, he works in the studio Objektor Architekti.

Valerio Morabito

He teaches landscape architecture at the Mediterranean University in Italy. From 2004 to 2021, he was in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Among the many articles and books he has published is The City of Imagination, a collection of over 150 drawings representing imagined cities.

In 2022, Morabito was awarded a fellowship at the prestigious American Academy in Rome, where he designed large-scale drawings representing American cities. He later held exhibitions in the United States and several European countries. He founded APScape, a company that combines art and landscape, ecology and resilience to develop ideas for public parks, public spaces, sustainable buildings, green infrastructure and strategies.

The latest exhibition, Mr. Palomar Goes to Oslo, features Morabito exploring the literature of Italo Calvino and creating maps and imaginary places of Oslo.