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Three years of the Visiting Editors programme concluded with great Davide Tommaso Ferrando touring Prague on 31.1.19 and Brno on 1.2.19 with his talk The Editorial Practice of Everyday Life. We couldn´t wish for a better finale and questions to think about.
Thanks to our fantastic long-term public visiting the series since 2016. We are a larger critical community that arose from these encounters in these spaces / Fórum pro architekturu a média and PER.
Thanks to all our Visiting Editors who spent intense 48 hours with us talking, thinking, travelling between Brno and Prague. We keep reading you, following your work and hopefully seeing you here again.
2018-9
#9 Davide Tommaso Ferrando
#8 Rebekka Kiesewetter
#7 Andreas Rumpfhuber
2017
#6 Anna Puigjaner
#5 Mark Minkjan
#4 Daniel Tudor Munteanu
2016
#3 Léopold Lambert & Lynda Zein
#2 Jack Self
#1 Ethel Baraona Pohl
Yours all girls dream team: Šárka Svobodová a Petra Sebova, Barbora Špičáková a Irena Lehkoživová aka Vítek Perner, Jana Pavlová and Maria Topolcanska.

Our tour #8 and the joy of listening and reading with Rebekka Kiesewetter and lovely audience on the first night in Brno on 4.12.18 in PRAHA / Fórum pro architekturu a média...and the following one on 5.12.18 arriving to Prague...🚂... PER gallery.

So you really can work with a dream of publishers. Ethel and Cesar and their DPR-barcelona publishing house.

We had various really nice personal chats on the meaning of this call over holidays.
So this is just a reminder.
Do formulate your book idea and share your writing samlpes ontime. Especially the shy writers, take courage. Hope to read you!

Call for Writers: FINAL_FINAL | First dpr-barcelona Writing Grant.

Mark Minkjan, the chief editor of Failed Architecture and one of our Visiting Editors who toured VI PER in Prague and PRAHA / Fórum pro architekturu a média in Brno last year is openning this important crowdfunding campaign.
This is what we can do: self-support, read and think together.

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Už jsme v Brně!
🚂>>>dnes PRAHA / Fórum pro architekturu a média >>>🚂>>>zítra VI PER

Foto: Workshop and launch of the publication Publishing Acts I. P**a Docments during "Breaking Down the Walls" Festival MAO Slovenia Ljubljana/ Future Architecture Credits: Peter Giodani

...and arriving to Brno...🚂...on 15.10. with Andreas / Fórum pro architekturu a média. Fantastic night.
foto: Viol Hertelová

12.10. with Andreas Rumpfhuber PER gallery Praha.
foto: Jonas Kolarik

Včerejší recenze Andreasovy knihy Into the Great Wide Open od Peluso v Domusu.
S tím dnes můžeme v klidu vyrazit do Brna, v 19.00 jsme v PRAHA / Fórum pro architekturu a média:
„I když se eseje analyticky zabývají teoretickými a dávnými avantgardními návrhy, texty autorů v knize přímo zkoumají hmatatelné podmínky dnešní situace. Čtením knížky se každý architekt, dizajnér nebo kreativní pracovník může v jejich analýzách najít. Sám autor a editor upřímně zdůrazňuje, jak moc byly jeho úvahy a průběh tvorby knihy mocně zasaženy jeho vlastní zkušeností. Rumpfhuber je nabízí se stejnou odvahu, jaká charakterizuje práce o depresi kulturního teoretika Marka Fishera, který svoje politické analýzy doplňoval výpovědí o svých osobních zkušenostech jasným a dojemným způsobem.“

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Immaterial architecture and the condition of the contemporary designer in a book by Andreas Rumpfhuber Published by DPR Barcelona, a collection of essays analyses the political and social consequences of radical architecture.

NEWS from the middle of Brno

Velkou cenu 28. mezinárodního bienále grafického designu Brno – Cenu ministra kultury ČR – vyhrálo studio OK-RM z Velké Británie, které tvoří Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath.
Proč porota vybrala právě tuto designérskou dvojici? Projekty předložené studiem OK-RM jsou mistrně pojaté a jednoduše provedené. Ukazují sílu publikace v případě, když není navržena jen jako řada stránek za sebou, ale jako hmotný objekt.
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The winner of the Grand Prix of the Brno Biennial 2018 – the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Award – is OK-RM studio from Great Britain (Oliver Knight & Rory McGrath).
Why the jury choose this design duo? The projects submitted by the OK-RM studio excel in their masterful approach and simple ex*****on. They suggest the powerful impact of a publication when it is not designed merely as a sequence of pages one after another, but as a material object.