Miroslav Šik

Miroslav Sik (born March 7, 1953 in Prague ) is a Swiss architect , architectural theorist and professor at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich .

life and career

Miroslav Šik is the son of the Czech reformist Ota Šik . After the failure of the Prague Spring , he emigrated with his family to Switzerland, attended grammar school in Basel from 1968 to 1972 and studied architecture in Zurich from 1972 to 1979 with Dolf Schnebli , Aldo Rossi and Mario Campi . 1980–1983 he was an assistant at the gta Institute ETHZ (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture). From 1983 to 1991 he was a research assistant with Fabio Reinhart and held teaching positions in Prague from 1990 to 1993 and in 1993/94 and 1998 in Lausanne . He has been a full professor at ETH Zurich since 1999. He has been Swiss since 1985 and has been running his own office in Zurich since 1987. In 2012 Miroslav Šik represented Switzerland at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale.

Analog architecture

At the beginning of the 1990s he had a major influence on the architectural discourse with the analogue architecture he initiated - also by holding seminars and encouraging students to work on it - and this has found its way into many publications and debates. In naturalistic architectural representations, which were still elaborately constructed and drawn by hand, the analogue architecture proposed a synthesis of existing models with alienating elements, thereby attempting to overcome postmodernism .

Works

Miroslav Šik came out more as a theorist and teacher, which is why his built work is quite small.

Fonts

• Miroslav Šik (Ed.): And now the Ensemble !!! Lars Müller Publishers, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-311-5 .
• Old New Thoughts: Texts and Conversations 1987–2001. Quart, Luzern 2002, ISBN 3-907631-13-7 .
• Miroslav Sik - Old New. (De Aedibus 2). Quart, Luzern 2000, ISBN 3-907631-01-3 .
• Alena Hanzlová (ed.): Analog architecture. Exhibition catalog. Obec Architektů, Prague 1991, OCLC 313617509 .
• Miroslav Šik (ed.): Analog architecture. Boga, Zurich 1987, DNB 207060134 .

Buildings

• Catholic parish center St. Antonius in Egg (ZH), 1988–1997
• Catholic congress center La Longeraie in Morges / VD, 1990–1995
• Musician's residence at Bienenstrasse in Zurich, 1992–1997
• Rectory of St. Antonius in Egg, 1997–2003
• Parental home at Pestalozzistrasse in Zurich, 2000–2002
• STT school Kispi in Zurich, 2000–2003
• Entrance hall of the Children's Hospital in Zurich, 2003–2005
• House S. in Trebon, Czech Republic, 2003-2005
• Reconstruction of the Reformed Church in Baden, 2004–2007
• Center «Bürgerhuus», living, senior citizens' living in Haldenstein, 2006–2008
• Retirement home Neustadt 2 in Zug, 2007–2012

Web links

• Šik Chair on the ETH website
• Architecture Biennale 2012
• Midcomfort

literature

• Heinz Wirz (Ed.): Miroslav Sik. Architecture 1988–2012. Quart, Luzern 2012, ISBN 978-3-03761-057-2 .
• Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .