EXPO 2025 CZECH PAVILION

Eva Jiřičná was born in Zlín in the family of an architect. She studied Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, then at the Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Jaroslav Fragner. She has two architectural studios - in London (where she has lived since 1968, when she was unable to return to Czechoslovakia after the August occupation) and AI Design, based in Prague, which she founded with architect Petr Vágner in 1999. She is a pioneer of 20th century design and a recipient of the Order of the British Empire.

She graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague. In 2000, together with Tomáš Starý, she founded the Lennox architects architectural studio, which is dedicated to creating small interventions, designing new buildings and reconstructions, as well as planning studies. All their public commissions have resulted from architectural competitions or workshops. Notable projects in recent years include the revitalization of the Buďánka conservation area in Prague and the reconstruction of the Colonial into a community centre.

Balázs Bognár is a Hungarian-American architect and partner at Kengo Kuma & Associates. His notable completed works include the Amanpuri Retail Pavilion in Phuket, Thailand, the Rolex Tower in Dallas, Texas (2018, Engineering News-Record 2019 Global Best Office Building Project), the Portland Japanese Garden Cultural Village in Oregon (2017, Eurasian Prize 2018, AIA Japan Architecture Award 2019, and more), and the Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo, Japan.

Kasl graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University, majoring in architecture. Until 1991 he was an architect at Drupos Prague. In 1992-1998 he was the director of his own architectural studio A projekt. Since 2019 he has been the chairman of the Czech Chamber of Architects (CCA). He is also a member of the Working Group for Legislation at the CCA. He actively represents the Chamber in working groups involved in the process of preparing the new Building Act and related legislation. In parallel, he is engaged in his own architectural practice.

An architect and promoter of architecture, he graduated from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University in Liberec, studied in Los Angeles and worked in London and Paris. In 2015 he was awarded the Architekt roku award. He is mainly engaged in theoretical, critical and media activity. He has been involved in the creation of the Centre for Architecture and Urban Planning (CAMP). He spreads general awareness of architecture through his own programmes on Radio Wave and on the internet television MALL.tv.