Autor: TaK Architects

The TaK Architects office was established in 2002 by a team of architects and construction engineers who had been working together for many years. The main philosophy of the company is the belief that a house is a collective work, a variable of the client’s demand. Due to the architect’s fantasy, it gains contours and transforms into real space. During its existence, the office has realised hundreds of projects, and received many national and international awards. By design it engages in the context of historic and contemporary architecture, seeking balance between historic preservation, requirements of contemporary functional construction and authentic manifestation. The work is simultaneously a dialog – it is part of the work in regards to the client and an interdisciplinary cooperation. The experience of more than eighty projects – their reconstruction, rebuilding of historically protected objects, conversion and completion of historical areas in the area of Prague and Central Bohemian Region – is presented in thematic exhibitions, lectures and in publications.

An architect and university educator Marek Tichý is involved in the Czech Technical University in Prague, faculty of architecture. In 2002 he established and to this day conducts his own architectonical office TaK, which has long-term addressed contemporary and historical architecture. He presents the search for authentic architectonic manifestation, balance between historical preservation and requirements of contemporary and functional construction not only in his work, but also in thematic exhibitions, lectures and in publications.

About the Czech Architecture Award

The mission of the Czech Chamber of Architects (CCA), an autonomous professional body with transferred executive powers, is to cultivate public works culture in the Czech Republic and support the pursuit of excellence. In keeping with this mission, it has announced the seventh edition of the Czech Architecture Award (CAA), which extends the Chamber’s promotion of quality work by established and emerging architects. The CCA aims to map architectural production in the Czech Republic and to present quality works and human interventions in urban and natural environments to the professional and lay public and to representatives of local and national administrations.

This competition showcase is open to all architectural works completed in the Czech Republic in the previous five years (2017–2021). Previously entered works may be re-entered, provided they were not shortlisted.

As in previous years, works by Czech architects were assessed by seven accomplished foreign architects. The jury’s principal task was to nominate approximately 30 projects, which were presented at the nomination event and are included in a touring exhibition and the Award catalogue.
The jury then selected approximately 5 buildings, whose architects would be recognised as Finalists, from which they would select the winner.
The submitted works are not assessed within any categories.

The activities of the professional Academy of the Czech Architecture Award established by the Board of the Czech Chamber of Architects are an essential aspect of the CAA. Renowned figures active in the field of architecture (more than 300 academics, including architects, publicists, architecture critics and other professionals) can actively look for interesting buildings and implementations and enter them in the competition if the architects do not enter themselves.