Three speakers will offer their experiences from abroad: design-build pioneer Michael Hughes, former head of the architecture department at the American University in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and Marie and Keith Zawistowski from ENSA Grenoble in France. They had previously worked at Virginia Tech in the United States for a number of years and became involved in design-build teaching after participating as students in the Rural Studio project led by Samuel Mockbee. Together they run the onSITE office.
The conference will open on 11 April with a lecture on The Latent Potential of the Mundane by Rick Sommerfeld, a leading teacher of design-build projects in the United States, where this way of teaching has its roots and is most widespread. Sommerfeld leads the Colorado Building Workshop at the University of Denver and will be a Fulbright Specialist at the FA CTU in April.
Both the conference and the lecture will take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the CTU, Thákurova 9, Prague 6. The lecture by Rick Sommerfeld will take place on 11 April at 6 pm in the lecture room 155 Gočár, the conference on 12 April in the room 152/153. The events will be held in English, admission is free. It is possible to participate in the debate without submitting an abstract.
Open call
Submissions are welcome from undergraduate, master's or doctoral students who have been given the opportunity to participate in design-build projects at any architecture school in the Czech Republic while studying architecture. The content of the paper should summarize the course of the project (assignment, group work, main challenges of the semester) and present an authentic personal experience from the student's perspective. The expected length of the paper is 8-10 min (to be specified depending on the number of submissions) and should be presented in English.
Please send the title of the paper with a short annotation (max 800 characters including spaces) to the conference coordinator Šárce Malošíkové by 25 March.
The proceedings of the conference will be compiled into a book in which the papers of the participants will be published. Papers should be 2-5 standard pages (3600-6000 characters including spaces) and can be written in Czech or English.
The conference is supported by the grant SVK 57/24/F5.
Organizing team
Ing. arch. Šárka Malošíková, coordinator
Ing. arch. Martin Čeněk, Ph.D.
Program
Morning block
| 9.00 | Introduction, Dalibor Hlaváček |
| 9.15 | Guest Lecture - Michael Hughes: Crafting a Design Build Curriculum on the Arabian Peninsula |
| 10.15 | Coffee break |
| 10.30 | Kristýna Smržová: Design and Build at Faculty of Architecture, BUT |
| 10.50 | Šárka Malošíková: Design and Build at Faculty of Architecture, CTU: Where Do We Go From Here? |
| 11.15 | Roman Hrabánek a Lukáš Kalivoda: Learning from Building a Mountain Shelter Together: A Retrospective Outlook |
| 11.30 | Monika Pečená, Juraj Vronka a Václav Železník: Footbridge in Sv. Petr “Fošínka” |
| 11.45 | Petra Biliková, Tereza Smažinková, Matěj Střecha: Invisible Footbridge |
| 12.00 | Jan Stuchlík, Michal Zapletal: Footbridge over Pudlava – “The French Fries” |
| 12.15 | Veronika Vávrová: Footbridge “Klínovvka” |
| 12.30 | Lunch break |
Afternoon block
| 14.00 | Guest Lecture - Marie & Keith Zawistovski: Simple Tools |
| 15.00 | Coffee break |
| 15.15 | Round Table: Design-Build Education |
| 16.15 | Final Remarks, Rick Sommerfeld |