Prague’s Architecture Between Rigour and Disco

We often tend to look at the architectural heritage of the 1990s with a certain bias. After years spent reassessing both expert and public attitudes towards post-war architecture, it is only natural that the time has come for a thorough evaluation of buildings created after the fall of communism. On one side stood a strict approach inspired by interwar modernism, functionalism, and the restrained architecture of Alena Šrámková; on the other, the freely playful postmodernism of the much-admired West. This exhibition presents buildings constructed in Prague between 1989 and 2004 and uses them to illustrate the shifts of the era. Its aim is neither celebration nor condemnation, but the search for new nuances that help us understand the legacy of this decade—without prejudice or labelling. The exhibition accompanies a new book of the same name by Matěj Beránek, Jan Bureš, Radek Šrettr Úlehla and Adéla Vaculíková, published by IPR Prague.