brno, czechia
Open House BRNO
18-19 May 2024
About Open House Brno
Brno boasts many famous architectural jewels, as well as beautiful places to live, experience, and return to. Explore the gems that grace this city. Architecture is an art form, that strongly influences our visual perception of the surrounding world. Still, a number of buildings are usually inaccessible and trigger an interest and desire to get in much closer contact with them, get inside, and experience the ingenuity of the architect.
Once again in May 2024, Open House Brno will open a combined festival for citizens of Brno and visitors, as well as online virtual visits to more than 115 locations across the city. The organizers from Culture & Management Club will extend the program with live music, discussions and specialty gastro program.
Educational workshops will be open for little architects and also technical education about railway engines/locomotives and the railroad will be available on the premises of the Society of Moravian Park Railways (Spolecnost Moravskych Parkovych Drah SMPD). Filming and workshops are being prepared with IQ media. Brno Technical University and Masaryk University will showcase their growing campus locations. The accesibility and inclusion focus of 2024 premiered already in March 24, when exibition on the topic was opened in St. Ann´s University Hospital. During festival this curatorial effort of Sarka Bahounkova will be represented by 35 new locations. Once again will be opened top rated brownfield revitalization examples DADA district residential lofts, and Zbrojovka as well as gardens of villa Tugendhat.
Welcome to new english tours prepared in cooperation with Open House Europe project.
Archive
Note: Presentations are in Czech with subtitles in English and other languages available
CEITEC
This building from A PLUS a.s. was awarded the title of Building of the Year in 2014 and is an example of top high-tech architecture that combines clean design and functionality.
Camera/Editing: Rebeka Uličná/Jan Pochylý
Architects: A Plus
Hotel Courtyard by Marriott
Architect Michaela Nováková of Studio Acht conceived the interiors of this modern four-star hotel with the Scandinavian moderation in the use of materials and the purity of design.
Presenter: Michaela Nováková
Camera/Editing: Petr Forejtek/ Radek Lunda
Architects: Acht studio
Spiritual Spaces OHWW 2020
An exploration of religious buildings across the world
Spiritual Spaces
An Exploration of Religious Buildings Across the World
guided by Martin Pešl
Church of the Blessed Mary Restituta
A futuristic church with an expressively simple and legible design by Atelier Štěpán features a circular floor plan that symbolizes return to community and family.
Presenter: Pavel Hověz
Camera/Editing: Petr Forejtek/ Radek Lunda
Architects: Atelier Stepan
Elementary school Brno, Vejrostova 1
A two-story extension by Ing. arch. Boris Hála with interiors by Petra Brulíková and a team of teachers play on the principle of contrast (yin and yang), intertwining the existing school with the new building.
Presenter: Boris Hála
Camera/Editing: Rostislav Klíma
Architect: Boris Hala
Keep Functionalism in the Family: Baldizzi Apartment and Tesař´s Villa OHWW 2022
Jump back to the 1930s in hour eleven, with homes in Brno and New York that both tell stories over generations. First, a visit to the Tenement Museum in New York, where the 'Baldizzi Apartment' recreates the 1930s home of a family of Italian immigrants living through the Great Depression. A divergence from the Functionalist style of architecture of the period, and more luxurious than the Baldizzi apartment but equally functionalist, Tesař Villa in Brno was designed by Bohuslav Fuchs in 1937 with large apartments set behind curving walls. The building was commissioned by the Tesař family and has remained in the family for three generations. Speakers Michal Kolar, architectural historian, Joseph Arnold Cultural Center and OH Brno Kathryn Lloyd, Tenement Museum Martin and Lucie Pesl, Open House Brno Rowan Wu, Open House New York Hosted by Open House Brno, Open House New York, and the Tenement Museum
Presenter:
Michal Kolar, architectural historian, Joseph Arnold Cultural Center and OH Brno
Kathryn Lloyd, Tenement Museum
Martin and Lucie Pesl, Open House Brno
Rowan Wu, Open House New York
Architects: Bohuslav Fuchs