Opava: Department Store Breda

Gabu Heindl is Professor and head of the department Architecture Cities Economies | Building Economy and Project Development at the University of Kassel. Gabu is author of the book Stadtkonflikte. Radical Democracy in Architecture and Urban Planning (Mandelbaum 2020) and Gerechte Stadt Muss Sein (AK Vienna 2022). She works as an independent architect and urban planner with her Vienna-based practice GABU Heindl Architektur on public space, the refurbishing of public buildings, collective housing projects and urban justice.

Flemish architect based in Ghent and Brussels. He has completed numerous works in Belgium and abroad and exhibited in many galleries. He is a professor at ETH Zurich and combines practice and teaching under the motto Re-Practice and Prac-Teach. He was awarded the Silver Lion at the Architecture Biennale for his design of the pavilion
of the Caritas Psychiatric Clinic in Melle (2017), that was revitalised according to an experimental idea developed in collaboration with different user groups. The result is a surrealist fusion of old and new.

She studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where she now teaches urban planning. Her interests include the relationship between environmental characteristics and the way people move and use space. In her scientific work, she focuses, among other things, on the care of urban value.

Art historian and rector of the University of Applied Arts in Prague born in Opava. In his scientific work, he focuses mainly on the history of architecture and architects of the 18th to 20th centuries. He deals with castle, bourgeois, industrial and funerary architecture. He has made a monography of the work of the Silesian architect Leopold Bauer and mapped the buildings of Moravian architects of the Otto Wagner school in Moravia and Silesia.

Architecture graduate Czech Technical University in Prague. Together with Prokop Tomášek they founded their own office Atelier 69 - architects, whose team was later joined by J. Wertig. A69’s projects include the Dr. Peták Sanatorium in Františkovy Lázně or the reconstruction of the pedestrian zone in Cheb. He teaches at the Architectural Institute in Prague (ARCHIP) and runs a studio at the Faculty of Architecture of the ČVUT

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 Architect of the Year 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.

Architectural historian and conservationist. He works at the National Heritage Institute, a territorial department in Ostrava, where he deals with the architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries and the issues of new buildings in the historical context. He is the author of essays titled The Ostrava Pedestrian and organises guided walks through Ostrava.

mayor of the Statutory City of Opava

councillor of the Statutory City of Opava

Deputy Mayor of the Statutory City of Opava

Head of the Department of the Chief Architect and Master Plan of the Statutory City of Opava

artist, Association for the Rescue of the Breda Department Store

Head of the Mayor’s Office Department