Dates

16.12. 2016 / 19:00 / Living Room

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Quarrelled families invent ingenious ways to avoid one another another in shared areas, a dynasty of dwarves become rich due to ship equipment trade, sadomasochistic sisters run a discreet Home for the blind, a man lives in harmony with animals and plants, the throne of Charles IV is found in a pillar of a bridge, a passionate hunter holds saturnalian feasts in a golden-black-silver hall without windows. What does the most absurd roof truss north of the Alps look like?

An uncompromising architect designs waste pipes of square cross-section, experts discover the highest floor of an unknown tower, a radical investor rejects 118 architectural proposals making enemies of all local institutions and surviving two duels.

A winner of the battle „Man Against the Machine“ trains for his comeback, a baroness lives in the middle of an industrial zone in a castle from 12th century, a man writes a thick undecodable manuscript, a railway employee plays on wires drawn to railway switches, a hermit suffers from his gambling tendencies, a deadly house comes to life once every 11 years, a husband rebuilds his semi-detached house.

A concrete clod might be communicating with an extraterrestrial world, a one-legged man lives with his cattle in vaults of a large ramp, rebellious and violent inhabitants dwell in the Hussite war wagons. What stands at the place where Hannibal mourned for his frozen crocodile?

A family have been hiding themselves for all their lives behind a gate, a gay clergyman constructs a vibration chamber and a large centrifug, a son of a builder constructs his building the other way around, and an observatory provides a view of the Moon only twice a year.

 Gottfried Müller will create and sign covers of the books during the launch!

Colophon

Gottfried Müller – Melancholy and Adventure of Construction, 25 Forgotten Buildings

German originals „Schwermut und Abenteuer des Hausbaus: 24 Portraits verlorener Gebäude“

Translation: Mirko Baum

Publishers: Markéta Mráčková, Barbora Šimonová, Cultural Cooperative cosa.cz 2016

Cover and graphic design: Viktor Vejvoda

Czech editor: Soňa Ryndová

Print run: 1000 copies

Printing house: Tiskárny Havlíčkův Brod, a. s.

64 pages

ISBN 978-80-270-0646-5

Project supported by the Czech-German Future Fund, the Czech Architecture Foundation, and the Art-Now Foundation.