Jean-Pierre Carniaux is a French architect whose expertise draws on many years of experience under architectural luminary Ricardo Bofill; he even founded a branch of the Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura in New York. Some of the projects he has worked on include the National Theatre of Catalonia and the Barcelona Airport. Over the last 30 years, he has also worked in Prague, contributing to the Corso building in Karlín, for example.

The lecture was held in cooperation with the Association for Architecture and Development (Sdružení pro architekturu a rozvoj).