JAN KRISTEK

Faculty of Architecture VUT (Czechia)
The Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Brno University of Technology (since 2018), where he runs a design studio together with Jaroslav Sedlák. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In general, he deals with critical theory and critical approach in connection with urban planning and history of cities. He participated in the publications Contesting Space: Architecture as a Social Practice, From Chaos to a New Order with the subtitle The Beginnings of Institutionalized Research in Urban and Land Use Planning in Brno or On the Threshold of Tomorrow, a collective monography dealing with post-war architecture and planning.