The Free Academy: Eva Jiřičná
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: June 12, 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
Leading Czech architect Eva Jiřičná will look back on more than 60 years of her professional career and touch on key moments in her working life, including her collaboration with Václav Havel. She will pay special attention to the Prague Crossroads spiritual centre, for which she shaped a unique, sensitive and distinctive renovation.
Internationally renowned designer Jiřičná has been working in London since 1968, establishing her own studio in the city in the mid-1980s. She designs buildings, interiors, objects and furniture, while her work emphasises formal and technological innovation using traditional materials, in particular glass, stone and steel. Since the 1990s she has been returning regularly to the Czech Republic, where in 1999 she founded the AI-DESIGN architectural office in cooperation with Petr Vágner.
She has received numerous awards for her work, including being made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and being elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts. She has been awarded honorary doctorates and professorships at several universities, serves on international juries for architectural competitions and lectures extensively on her work around the world.