Rivers, industries, and the apartment interiors of Adolf Loos provide fertile ground for the speculative making of poetic relationships between architecture and the city.

Central Europe is a place of multiple making and speaking, national self-determination, geopolitical identity and ethnic unity do not always correspond with national boundaries or territorial claims. Conversation and the staking out of provisional ground must always be part of its progressive development.

A studio focused on the question of what it is to be modern today and how we answer this through architectural proposition. We borrow the notion of “poetic” from Julia Kristeva and allow “excess” language to be a formative method of articulation. Proposals that began at the scale of an apartment interior, grow and adapt to make new relationships with the varied themes of the city. Architectures develop that provide realms for public engagement and have the capacity to be agencies for enhancing the ground of Plzeň at multiple scales.