Art, craft, society. In the new FA CTU yearbook, diversity features as a strength of the school

The yearbook is always published during the following academic year and aims to make the most hindsight. This year's curatorial team, consisting of master's student Karolína Zbytková and teachers Vojtěch Sosna and Jan Stibral, decided to define guidelines for themselves and the reader to compare otherwise difficult to compare tasks. They divided the selection of works into chapters entitled Art, Craft and Society.

"In some works, beauty prevails, where architecture, landscape or design are conceived as artistic or conceptual artefacts. In other projects, we felt the centre of gravity was in the mastery of craft, which can be represented by a well-designed apartment building that fits humbly into the urban fabric, or the perfectly mastered ergonomics of a classic object such as a chair. Very often, there are also tasks and outcomes that respond to or draw attention to a broader social phenomenon of which architecture, landscape and design are integral parts," the curators explain. In addition to a selection of these, the reader will find in the yearbook a summary of the most important events of the academic year, publications published or an extensive index of studio assignments.

Also this year, the pages are interspersed with a guest artist's contribution, this time a poetic ode to the city in photographs by Anna Ritterová, a graduate of the FA CTU. In her work, she records the life of the city, immortalizing magical moments of the interplay of light, shadow and colour.

The yearbook is available for purchase at the IKAN press centre on the ground floor of the FA CTU. Gradually it will also become available in selected bookstores (Page Five, Kavka Book, Juditina věž) and in the KOSMAS network.

FA CTU YEARBOOK 2022–23
Initiator: Dalibor Hlaváček
Editorial board: Dalibor Hlaváček, Marek Nedelka, Kateřina Rottová, Jan Stibral
Editor: Jan Stibral
Curators: Vojtěch Sosna, Karolína Zbytková, Jan Stibral
Guest photographer: Anna Ritterová
Interview texts: Matúš Dulla, Pavel Fuchs
Editorial collaboration: Karolína Hanková, Klára Pučerová, Kateřina Rottová, Ondřej Šmída, Romana Vylitová
Photographs: Štěpán Hon, Dagmar Hujerová, Lubomír Kotek, Jiří Ryszawy, Iveta Valentová and authors' archive
Language proofreading: Pavlína Zelníčková
Graphic design and typesetting: Marek Nedelka
Production: Klára Pučerová, Ondřej Šmída
Publishing house: Czech Technical University in Prague, prepared by the Faculty of Architecture in the edition of Yearbook.
ISBN: 978-80-01-07247-9
Description: 1x book, paperback, 176 pages, Czech, English
Dimensions: 240x330 mm
Year of publication: 2023