Institute of Contemporary History

Research focus:

• History and theory of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism, theory of monument care, problems of urban public space

Education:

• 1985 – 1990: CSc., Institute of Art Theory and History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, doctoral dissertation „The City as a Cultural Phenomenon“.
• 1968 – 1974: PhDr., Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, (programme Philosophy and Psychology)

Employment (selection):

• 2025 – Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 2008 – 2024: Faculty of Art and Architecture, TUL
• 1986 – 2023: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences

Membership in institutions and commissions:

• member of the Academy Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (1993-1996), of its Presidium (1996-2000), Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (2000-2008), member of the Accreditation Commission of the Czech Republic (1998-2004), expert for the Czech Republic in the Programme Committee „Social Sciences and Humanities“ 7. EU Framework Programme (2007-2010), member of the Ethics Committee of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2013-2024). member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European programme „JPI Urban Europe“ (2017-2022)
• 1990 – present: Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Architektúra a urbanizmus

Foreign stays, internships, scholarships:

•  8/2011 – 10/2011: Fulbright Fellowship, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (prof. Kenneth Frampton)

Grant and research projects (selection):

• Principal investigator of the project „Architecture and Public Space“ (2011 – 2014,GA ČR P409/11/2220)
• in the past, he has been the principal investigator of another 4 grants of the Grant Agency of the CAS and co-investigator of 2 grants of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR).

Recent books:

• Ven z galerie! Umění v českém veřejném prostoru po roce 1989 (Out of the gallery! Art in the Czech Public Space after 1989), Prague 2022, co-editor and co-author
• Estetika udržitelné architektury (Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture), Prague 2020, co-editor and co-author
• Veřejný prostor v ohrožení? (Public space in danger?)  Prague 2018, editor and co-author
• Městský veřejný prostor (Urban Public Space), Prague 2015.
• Současná česká architektura a její témata (Contemporary Czech Architecture and Its Themes), Prague 2011.
• Dějiny Zemí Koruny české – Architektura (History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown – Architecture), Prague 2009 (editor and co-author)
• Zelená architektura.cz  (Green Architecture.cz) , Prague 2008
• Dějiny českého výtvarného umění, sv. VI  (History of Czech Fine Art, vol. VI),  (ed. R. Švácha, M. Platovská), co-author; 3 chapters on Czech architecture after 1968, Prague 2007.

Curator or co-curator of 7 architectural exhibitions.