Prague's Architecture Amidst Discipline and Disco

We tend to look down on the architectural heritage of the 1990s. After years of reconciling the attitudes of both experts and the general public towards post-war architecture, it’s now time to more thoroughly assess what was built in the post-communist era. On one hand, there was the austerity inspired by interwar modernism, functionalism, and the formally and conceptually “disciplined” architecture of Alena Šrámková. On the other, the freely playful postmodernism of the idealized West. The exhibition presents buildings constructed in Prague between 1989 and 2004, using them to illustrate the period's changes. The aim is not to worship or condemn, but to search for new nuances that help us understand the legacy of this decade—without prejudice or labels. The exhibition accompanies a new book of the same name by Matěj Beránek, Jan Bureš, Radek Šrettr Úlehla, and Adéla Vaculíková, published by IPR Praha.