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Title: Česká architektura v mezičase
Year: 2024
Design: #publikumdesign
Publisher: @umprum_praha
Texts: Karolína Jirkalová
Typefaces: Numeracci typeface by @jakubsamek.info, Mediator by Nikola Wilde
Dimensions: 152 x 225 mm
Binding: Paperback

The theme of Karolína Jirkalová’s book is the interrelations, overlaps and conflicts between Czech architecture, politics and society at the end of state socialism and in the first years after the Velvet Revolution. It deals with the transformation of the roles and power positions of individual actors in the public debate and the construction process – architects, the state (authorities and legislation), investors and users, and not least the contractor sphere and their ties, networks and coalitions.

Although 1989 is undoubtedly a significant turning point, the continuities between the eras it separates are at least as strong as the discontinuities. Even historical discontinuities often share common content—just with opposite signs. The work attempts to capture and interpret a specific “in-between time” of the transition of Czech architecture, which can be situated approximately in the years 1986–1994.

We translate the needs of academic, scientific, and cultural organizations into complex visual languages. While we are particularly passionate about serving these fields, we also work with commercial clients to create bespoke solutions.

Anežka Hrubá Ciglerová *1984, graduated from the Studio of Type Design and Typography at AAAD. She completed an internship at the Royal Academy in The Hague. Her projects include the visual identity of the Czech Literary Centre, the visual identity of the VIPER gallery and a number of books for the AAAD publishing house.

Nikola Wilde *1989, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and at the AAAD in Prague, majoring in Type Design and Typography. She specializes in type design and typographic design for books, publications. She has collaborated with Indian type foudry.

Richard Wilde *1985, graduated from the Studio of Graphic Design and New Media at AAAD in Prague, where he later taught as an assistant teacher in the studio of Visual Communication. He also completed an internship at the SVA New York. He specializes in the creation of complex identities, visual styles and infographics.

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Studio address:
Františka Křížka 362/1,
Prague 7-Holešovice
170 00, Czech Republic

hello@publikum.design