Architecture Talk: ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details

Vienna Design Week 2024

Following Mies van der Rohe’s famous dictum “God is in the detail,” the Architecture Talk in the context of the exhibition ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details will explore the question of the meaning of design details in modern architecture.

Host: Rainald Franz, MAK Curator of the ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details exhibition.

Sat, 21.9.2024 2 pm

MAK – Museum of Applied Arts

A man stands in front of a wall of pictures.

A curved door handle in red on a glass door.

On the Exhibition ELEMENTS: Adam Štěch’s Perspective on Architectural Details
In a version adapted to the museum, the MAK has adopted the exhibition Elements: Unique Details of the 20th Century Architecture and Interior conceived by Adam Štěch for the Dropcity, Milan in the context of the Salone del Mobile in April 2024. The exhibition presents almost 3,000 architectural details captured by Adam Štěch aka @okolo_architecture. For the exhibition, Prague architectural historian and researcher Adam Štěch created an “atlas” of architectural details sorted by criteria such as lighting, seating, doors, fittings, windows, floors, walls, as well as other decorative or functional elements of interior design. In a team with Matěj Činčera and Jan Kloss, a mobile display system was developed that makes a flexible presentation of the selection possible.

Exhibition Dates: 18.9.2024—2.3.2025
Opening: Tue, 17.9.2024, 6 pm

Architecture Talk: Sat, 21.9.2024, 2 pm
Free admission