Archipelago of Wonders: Conception of Anatoli Bugorski Independent Research Institute for Scientific Failures

A fascination with obsolescence as an inherent landscape condition lies at the core of a project that thematically focuses on fundamental scientific inquiry in reference to the Big Science. It stems from the preconceived tensions between the notions of progress versus obsolescence and progress versus accident. <br/><br/>The former is a result of...

Utopia as Escapism, Escapism as Protest: Exploring the radical art and architecture of 1968 - 1989 Czechoslovakia, the case for VAL collective

Radical experimentation, formal plurality, and oscillation between architecture and visual arts permeated the 50s and 60s generation of architects and artists on both sides of the politically divided Europe. Central and Eastern European examples from this period are often undervalued, if addressed at all, both by Western European standards and...