“Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes” Exhibition
The Center for Architecture
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The Center for Architecture opens Prague Functionalism: Tradition and Contemporary Echoes on February 12th, 2015. This is the exhibition’s US premiere, and the first major exhibition at the Center for Architecture to focus on Eastern European design.
The exhibition presents photographs of Prague’s functionalist buildings, projects, and drawings. The first section of the exhibition is focused on functionalist projects from the 1920s and 1930s, and the second section presents contemporary projects influenced by Czech Functionalist tradition. Texts by architectural scholars and researchers accompany the photographs.
Originally presented at Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague, the New York presentation will include models of historic and contemporary buildings, Czech furniture and industrial design from the era, and a to-scale reproduction of a 1930s Czech minimal housing unit.
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Schedule
from February 12, 2015 to May 23, 2015
See Exhibition's website
Opening Reception on 2015-02-12 from 18:00 to 19:30