Glassmaking meeting with David Vávra
Program
David Vávra will guide you through this exceptional evening. The program of this Glassmaking Meeting will include glassmaking at the glassworks and a lecture with a screening, during which Mr. Vávra will present his glass creations in architecture, produced at the TGK glassworks in Skalice near Česká Lípa.
David Vávra (*1957) is a Czech architect, actor, screenwriter, and popularizer of architecture. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and since the beginning of his professional career, he has been working at the intersection of professional architectural practice and cultural creation.
He is best known to the general public as the co-founder and prominent figure of the Sklep Theater, with which he has been associated since the late 1970s. It was here that his distinctive style was formed—a combination of irony, exaggeration, civil humor, and the ability to comment on social and cultural topics with detachment.
In addition to his theater work, he has long been involved in architecture and its popularization. He is the author and presenter of several television series, most notably the program Šumná města (Noisy Cities) on Czech Television. In this series, he explores the architecture of Czech and Moravian cities in the 20th century, especially interwar and postwar modernism, always in a broader cultural and historical context.
David Vávra is known for his narrative approach to architecture. He does not perceive buildings in isolation, but as part of the story of a place, people, and time. He is the author and co-author of books, screenplays, and theater projects in which he repeatedly returns to the themes of place memory, city identity, and society's relationship to its own history. Humor in his work does not serve as an end in itself, but as a means of opening dialogue and breaking down barriers between experts and the public.
