Guest lecture and seminar by prof. Filip Šenk

In the beginning of January 2026, we invite you to a guest lecture and seminar by Prof. Filip Šenk from Prague. The lecture and seminar are organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana and the DESSA Gallery.


The lecture is open to the public and will take place on Monday, 5 January 2026, at 5 p.m. at the DESSA Gallery.

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 6 January 2026, from 4 to 6 p.m. and on Friday, 9 January 2026, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the DESSA Gallery. Registration is required to attend the seminar. You can register until all places are filled by emailing Uroš Mikanovič at: uros.mikanovic@fa.uni-lj.si

The lecture and seminar will be held in English.


Lecture

The Broad Vision of Architecture
Notes on selected ideas of Dalibor Veselý

The lecture will focus on presenting and contextualizing selected ideas and concepts of Dalibor Veselý, particularly with regard to his important book Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation. The main emphasis will be placed on questions of representation and the relationship between communicative space and Jan Patočka's phenomenological theories of the lifeworld (Lebenswelt, přirozený svět). The search for a framework connecting spontaneous creativity and technology.


Seminar I

Dalibor Veselý: Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation. The Question of Creativy in the Shadow of Production

In this seminar, we will focus primarily on a critical analysis of modern and contemporary architecture, and more generally, the modern lived environment. Does this architecture have the qualities necessary to respond to the complexity of our situatedness in the world? Do we have a unified view of the world that could be symbolically represented, thereby contributing to our orientation in the world?

Chapter 1: Modernity, Freedom, and Destiny
Chapter 5: The Foundations of Modern Architecture


Seminar II

Chapter 7: The Rehabilitation of Fragment
Chapter 8: Toward a Poetics of Architecture

Filip Šenk is an art historian and serves as the head of the Department for History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the Faculty of Arts at the Technical University of Liberec. He studied history of art and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno and at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Lancaster. His teaching and research activities focus on modern and contemporary architecture and art of the 20th and 21st centuries with a special interest in theories of space and place. He also works as a curator for both art and architecture.