Virtual City Walk: Prague

In Prague, Renaissance and Baroque landmarks effortlessly shake hands with contemporary, Modernist and Brutalist creations. Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP) architecture critic Adam Gebrian leads this virtual exploration into Prague’s richly historic layers, starting with the Sweerts-Spork Palace, an 18th century Baroque edifice with two radical reconstructions (Josef Gocar, 1920s and Stanislav Fiala, 2017). Continue on to the Federal Assembly National Museum, originally a stock exchange (Jaroslav Rössler, 1928) and later home to the Communist Era parliament. Along the riverfront, explore galleries and cafés tucked inside old, circular ice vaults (Petr Janda, 2019). The tour ends at CAMP headquarters, housed in a Modernist cube within the shadow of a Gothic monastery.

Swéerts-Šporkův Palace.

Register online for this six-session series sponsored by the Association of Architecture Organizations (AAO), in collaboration with program partners Danish Architecture Center, Chicago Architecture Center, Boston By Foot, CAMP (Prague), AIANY/Center for Architecture, and the Los Angeles Conservancy.