Kuba & Pilař architects

Kuba & Pilař
	Faculty of Chemical Technology at University of Pardubice; designed by the firm
Industry	Architectural firm
Founded	1998; 26 years ago
Founders	Ladislav Kuba ; Tomáš Pilař
Headquarters	Brno, Czech Republic
Website	arch.cz/kuba.pilar

Kuba & Pilař Architects is a Czech architecture firm based in Brno and established in 1998 by Ladislav Kuba and Tomáš Pilař.

Founders

Kuba was born on 26 July 1964 in Brno. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Brno University of Technology (VUT) from 1982 to 1986 and the Academy of Arts in Prague from 1986 to 1990.

Tomáš Pilař was born on 11 October 1963 in Brno. He studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at VUT from 1982 to 1987 and the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague from 1987 to 1994.

Professional activities

Kuba & Pilař Architects was established in 1998. Kuba worked from 2001 to 2002 as guest lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at VUT. Pilař also worked there in the years 1994 and 1998-2000. From 2011 to 2012 he was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Liberec. They have given lectures for students and professionals in the Czech Republic, Austria, and Germany.

Exhibitions

Mega will be Giga – Vienna 2004
Wonderland Tour – Prague, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and some other European cities 2004–2007
Brick 10 – Vienna 2010
New Face of Prague – Prague 2010, and some other European cities
V4 architecture – Prague 2011
KILL YOUR IDOL (Zabij svého Fuchse) - Psychoanalysis of Contemporary Architecture of the City of Brno - 4AM Brno 2011
Czech and Slovak pavillon at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia 2012^[1]
Kunstverein Leipzig 2013^[2]

Works

Omega building
Gymnasium at University of Pardubice
Fountain, Freedom Square, Brno

Chapel Panny Marie - Královny, Jestřebí, 1998^[3]
Apartment villas in Neumannova street, Brno, 2001
Faculty of Arts, Library, Masaryk University, Brno, 2001
Department store Omega, Brno, 2006^[4]
Fountain, Svobody square, Brno, 2006
Chapel sv. Antonína, Černá, 2006
Residential estate Na Krutci, Prague, 2008
Scientific Library, Ostrava, project 2008
Citypark department center, Jihlava, 2008
Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University Pardubice, 2008
Gymnasium, University Pardubice, 2008
Apartment house, Ostrava, 2010
Office building, Ostrava, 2011
Gallery of West Bohemia, Plzeň, project 2012
Faculty of Humanities, Charles Univerzity in Prague, project 2013

Awards

2002 – Main Price Grand Prix OA for Faculty of Arts, Library, Masaryk Univerzity
2002 – Grand Prix OA in category housing for Apartment villas in Neumannova street, Brno
2003 – nomination of Czech republic for Mies van der Rohe Award, Faculty of Arts, Library, Masaryk univerzity
2007 - nomination of Czech republic for Mies van der Rohe Award, Chapel sv.Antonína, Ćerná
2007 - nomination of Czech republic for Mies van der Rohe Award, Department store Omega, Brno
2007 – Main Price Best of Realty for Residential estate Na Krutci, Prague
2009 – Main Price Grand Prix OA for Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University Pardubice
2009 – Building of the Year for Citypark department center, Jihlava
2009 – Main Price Best of Realty for Citypark department center, Jihlava
2009 - nomination of Czech republic for Mies van der Rohe Award, Residential estate Na Krutci, Prague
2010 – finalist Brick Award 2010, Residential estate Na Krutci, Prague
2011 - nomination of Czech republic for Mies van der Rohe Award, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University Pardubice
2011 - Grand Prix OA in category new building for Apartment house, Ostrava

References

^ "4AM/BENÁTKY // ASKING ARCHITECTURE // Výstava, se kterou si musíte povídat4AM/VENICE // ASKING ARCHITECTURE // Exhibition you can talk to – 4AM/Fórum pro architekturu a média".
^ "Home". kunstvereinleipzig.de.
^ Bečková, Kateřina. "Kaple sv. Antonína v Černé u Měřína". StavbaWEB. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ ČÍŽKOVÁ, Lenka (30 June 2009). "Z architektury se stává politikum, říkají autoři brněnské Omegy Pilař a Kuba". iDnes. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

External links

www.arch.cz/kuba.pilar/

[1] "4AM/BENÁTKY // ASKING ARCHITECTURE // Výstava, se kterou si musíte povídat4AM/VENICE // ASKING ARCHITECTURE // Exhibition you can talk to – 4AM/Fórum pro architekturu a média".

[2] "Home". kunstvereinleipzig.de.

[3] Bečková, Kateřina. "Kaple sv. Antonína v Černé u Měřína". StavbaWEB. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

[4] ČÍŽKOVÁ, Lenka (30 June 2009). "Z architektury se stává politikum, říkají autoři brněnské Omegy Pilař a Kuba". iDnes. Retrieved 26 April 2017.

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