Architektura za čtyřmi hranicemi: Szymon Rozwałka (PL)

Architecture, like historic preservation, often does not tolerate what it has not created itself, whether in reality or virtually. Any contradiction, improvisation, inconsistency, dirt, or kitsch is perceived as a weed that must be removed. Just as with Zygmunt Bauman’s metaphorical gardener, here too “weeds”—which have always been part of the ecosystem—disrupt an imaginary perfection—a perfection that, in its modernist militancy, is blind, intolerant, and unchanging.

Contemporary Polish-Czech architect Szymon Rozwałka, who teaches at the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology, will use examples from his own practice, student projects from the Institute of Experimental Design at Brno University of Technology, and selected projects in Poland to oppose modernist architecture and its obsession with purity, control, and the elimination of difference. Instead, he will focus on the search for beauty in architecture “on the borderline”—architecture of contrast, uncertainty, and imperfection.