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Phoebe Apperson Hearst měla velmi úspěšného vlastního syna Williama, který byl ale více jako jeho otec: tvrdý obchodník. Našla však jemnou, uměleckou duši v malíři Orrinu Peckovi (1860–1921), který byl údajně gay a který ji, ještě za života své vlastní matky, začal oslovovat „má druhá mámo.“ Na základě podrobného výzkumu jejich vzájemné korespondence v Peckově pozůstalosti se můžeme ptát, jak moc si byla progresivní, bohatá žena 19. století, jakou byla Phoebe Hearst, vědoma Peckovy sexuality a pokud ano, jestli s tím neměla problém, nebo šlo o nevyřčené tajemství mezi nimi? Jejich příběh představí historik umění Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Phoebe Apperson Hearst had a very successful son of William, but he was more like his father: a tough businessman. However, she found a delicate, artistic soul in the painter Orrin Peck (1860–1921), who was allegedly gay and who, while still his own mother's life, began to address her as “my second mother.” Based on a detailed study of their correspondence in Peck's estate, we may ask how much a progressive, rich 19th-century woman like Phoebe Hearst was aware of Peck's sexuality, and if so, if she had no problem with it, or was it an unspoken secret between them? Their story will be presented by art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender.

The Central Library of Brno University of Technology in Brno (BUT) in the Czech Republic runs an e-learning course for first year students providing them with the basic information needed to improve their information literacy. The content of the course has changed by the installation of the web scale discovery Primo. Students are now briefed to use Primo for searching all the information content available on BUT. Because there is no further need to have individual chapters devoted to library catalogue and databases, it gives space to new issues that should be included in the information literacy course (e. g. presentation of information). With the new run of the course this semester we did the usability study of Primo that informed us about other changes that should be done.

In 1939, due to WWII and the Nuremberg Laws, the revolutionary Czech structural engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka arrived in the United States. After his arrival, he started a research job at UC Berkeley, renewed his engineering practice, and offered his services to the US military as many businesspersons did during this era. Polívka worked for Henry Kaiser who turned Richmond, CA, into a vibrant, fast developing workers city. New residential districts, hospitals, hangars, docks, and warehouses were built there. Henry Kaiser approached the structural development of the city in the same way he revolutionized the construction of battleships: from prefabricated, standardized parts. He supported research and development of new technologies. Mobile, round-shaped hospitals from prefabricated aluminum frames were one of the results of that research. In 1946, Jaroslav J. Polívka introduced himself to the “starchitect” Frank Lloyd Wright. A productive mutual co-operation that lasted 13 years and resulted in eight spectacular projects had started and Polívka, who had been working on extensive research both at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, came up with many technological, structural, and material innovations over the period. In 1957, Henry Kaiser funded the construction of one of the two geodesic domes designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in Hawaii and in the process he invited Frank Lloyd Wright to consult the project. Jaroslav J. Polívka was probably in direct contact with Fuller, since he wanted to include him in his unfinished project of an encyclopedia of the world-famous structural engineers. On this particular story and a social matrix evolving around Henry Kaiser and Frank Lloyd Wright, the lecture seeks to rethink architectural global modernism as a cooperative project rather than a series of individual innovations manifested by isolated genius figures.

In 1931, the Vienna publishing house Anton Schroll & Co. published Heinrich Kulka’s extensive monograph on Adolf Loos. In his text, Kulka discussed Loos’s idea of being an architect, he wrote about ornament and the reduction of ornament, and then, on about one page, he outlined Loos’s space concept, which he named “raumplan”. He emphasized a better organization and rationalization of interior space as Loos’s main innovation. However, when we look at Loos’s 1920s and 1930s houses, they boast of a huge waste of space (and money). After Loos’s death in 1933, many of his apprentices continued designing “in the Loos manner”, as Heinrich Kulka promoted his projects from the mid-1930s. At the same time, we can see that the apprentices‘ projects do not achieve Loos’s spatial qualities and proportions and their works had been contaminated with other inventions of architectural avant-garde. What was the real purpose of the invention and use of the term “raumplan“ by Loos’s pupils and has there been anything like that after Loos’s death? The lecture will try to answer this question using examples of post-Loos works by Heinrich Kulka and Kurt Unger from 1933 to 1939.

V letošním roce si připomínáme sto padesáté výročí narození jednoho z nejoriginálnějších architektů dvacátého století: Adolfa Loose (1870-1933). Přednáška představí Loosovu publicistickou činnost, hlavní myšlenky jeho architektury, jejich vzájemné rozpory, ale také Loosovy pokračovatele, jako byl Kurt Unger, Heinrich Kulka, dále jeho propagátory v českých zemích, jakými byli Jan Vaněk, Bohumil Markalous a Bořivoj Kriegerbeck, i nepřátele, mezi něž se řadil třeba Otto Wagner či Josef Gočár. V představení Loosovy architektury se přednáška zaměří na tzv. Raumplan, prostorové uspořádání moderního bydlení, jeho zdroje, mezi něž můžeme řadit klasické dispoziční schéma venkovského paláce, i na to, jak byl Loosův Raumplan rozvíjen a obohacován o další inovace v prostředí nejmladší generace vídeňských předválečných architektů, jako byl Fritz Reichl či Josef Frank. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of the most original architects of the twentieth century: Adolf Loose (1870-1933). The lecture will present Loos's journalistic activities, the main ideas of his architecture, their mutual contradictions, but also Loos's successors, such as Kurt Unger, Heinrich Kulka, his promoters in the Czech lands, such as Jan Vaněk, Bohumil Markalous and Bořivoj Kriegerbeck, and enemies which included, for example, Otto Wagner or Josef Gočár. In the presentation of Loos's architecture, the lecture will focus on the so-called Raumplan, the spatial arrangement of modern housing, its sources, including the classical layout of a country palace, and how Loos's Raumplan was developed and enriched with other innovations in Vienna's youngest pre-war generation. architects such as Fritz Reichl or Josef Frank.

Art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender will discuss qriting and performing queer art history in Central European context, providing insight into how the history of queer lives and experiences is being documented and presented in the Czech Republic. His talk will compare and contrast the ways that the path to queer emancipation in Central Europe has been distinct from the United States.

The aim is to assess public urban space's architectural and urban changes due to different cultural influences in the locality "Berlin Kreuzberg" – an area of reconstruction Kottbusser Tor – with 63.5 % representation of foreigners and residents with a migration background and a high share of non-European cultural influences.The selected area was compared with the locality "Berlin Lichtenberg" - Weitlingkiez (which has a low representation of foreigners and residents with migratory backgrounds) and with the situation of the appearance of the urban environment around 1980 and the current state.The results show the effects of cultural differences, both architectural and urban – changes in groups – Shape, Mass, and Space, as well as, for example, by comparing the number of services in both localities.Based on the data obtained, we can state no radical reconstructions in the "Berlin Kreuzberg" locality. The original buildings retain their European character. Cultural influence is manifested by changes in the types of buildings - mosques and cultural centres of Islam, synagogues, and Buddhist prayer houses. Cílem je zhodnocení architektonicko-urbánních změn veřejného městského prostoru působením rozdílných kulturních vlivů v lokalitě „Berlín Kreuzberg“ – oblast přestavby Kottbusser Tor – se 63,5 % zastoupením cizinců a obyvatel s migračním pozadím a vysokým podílem mimoevropských kulturních vlivů. Vybraná oblast byla komparována s lokalitou „Berlín Lichtenberg“ – Weitlingkiez (jež má nízké zastoupení cizinců a obyvatel s migračním pozadím) a se situací vzhledu městského prostředí okolo roku 1980 a současného stavu. Výsledky výzkumu ukazují na vlivy kulturních rozdílů jak architektonicko-urbánních – změny ve skupinách – Tvar, Hmota a Prostor, tak například i porovnáním počtu služeb v obou lokalitách. Na základě zjištěných údajů můžeme konstatovat, že v lokalitě „Berlín Kreuzberg“ nedochází k radikálním přestavbám. Původní budovy si zachovávají evropský ráz. Kulturní vliv se projevuje změnou typů budov – mešit a kulturních center islámu, synagog či buddhistické modlitebny.

Content of the lecture 1. Engineering approach - theory 2. Specific applications - mechanisms of deposition of particles in the lungs 3. Brno lung model - experiments and computational modeling 4. How the computational modeling works 5. Inhaled insulin - a story of a great failure 6. Potential - current challenges Obsah přednášky 1. Inženýrský přístup – teorie 2. Konkrétní aplikace – mechanismy usazování částic v plicích 3. Brněnský model plic – experimenty a počítačové modelování 4. Jak funguje počítačové modelování 5. Inhalovaný inzulin – příběh velkého selhání 6. Potenciál – aktuální výzvy

In autumn 2019, the Czech Republic celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which ended four decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. New freedoms have made it easier for LGBTQ people to live their lives more openly in this Central European country, yet they still face significant challenges. Established in 2014, the Society for Queer Memory is the first Czech queer archives and museum. It now holds more than 1,000 objects. Art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender will discuss the work of the organization, providing insight into how the history of queer lives and experiences is being documented and presented in the Czech Republic. His talk will compare and contrast the ways that the path to queer emancipation in Central Europe has been distinct from the United States.