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Magdalena Havlová

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Prague, Czech Republic
Magdalena Havlová (1989) is an architect based in Czech Republic. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, CTU (Prague) and worked in architecture studios in Zurich and Berlin. Since 2019 she co-runs czech-swiss studio Apropos Architects and she is also studying in a doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts (Prague) doing research on the typology of non-profit housing. In her freelance work she focuses on social issues, photography and music.

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Housing as a matter of common care

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Housing as a matter of common care
Research, revision and revitalisation of shared spaces of communal and cooperative housing.
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Housing has become a market entity and authorities providing dwelling have lost their power over this task. In Czech Republic there is a great stigmatisation of common and shared forms of property and use. However, there are dozens of cooperative and commune housing of high architecture quality from interwar period, of interesting typologies containing exterior common semi-public spaces. What does it mean, when the form of ownership changed, but the space remained the same? How can we use this environment for our natural tendency of socialization, especially in times of limited possibilities and lock down? The project is taking place in selected houses and their yards/gardens, where, based on the intensity of use, they are documented (filmed/photographed) and revived by activities with the residents focusing on communication, listening and hand-working. The project is part of the author's research and it will further develop the revision of this typology in a fictive housing project.


Courtyard, Cooperative house for security guards, 1929, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Yard, Municipal porch-house, 1929, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Front-gardens, Municipal block house, 1925, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Gardens, Municipal porch-house, 193?, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Floor plan, Collective housing, 1923
Drawing from author's archive

O U R S


Housing as a matter of common care

O U R S


Housing as a matter of common care
Research, revision and revitalisation of shared spaces of communal and cooperative housing.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Housing has become a market entity and authorities providing dwelling have lost their power over this task. In Czech Republic there is a great stigmatisation of common and shared forms of property and use. However, there are dozens of cooperative and commune housing of high architecture quality from interwar period, of interesting typologies containing exterior common semi-public spaces. What does it mean, when the form of ownership changed, but the space remained the same? How can we use this environment for our natural tendency of socialization, especially in times of limited possibilities and lock down? The project is taking place in selected houses and their yards/gardens, where, based on the intensity of use, they are documented (filmed/photographed) and revived by activities with the residents focusing on communication, listening and hand-working. The project is part of the author's research and it will further develop the revision of this typology in a fictive housing project.


Courtyard, Cooperative house for security guards, 1929, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Yard, Municipal porch-house, 1929, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Front-gardens, Municipal block house, 1925, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Gardens, Municipal porch-house, 193?, Prague
Photo from author's archive

Floor plan, Collective housing, 1923
Drawing from author's archive


Idea by

Magdalena Havlová
Prague
Czech Republic
Magdalena Havlová (1989) is an architect based in Czech Republic. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, CTU (Prague) and worked in architecture studios in Zurich and Berlin. Since 2019 she co-runs czech-swiss studio Apropos Architects and she is also studying in a doctoral program at the Academy of Fine Arts (Prague) doing research on the typology of non-profit housing. In her freelance work she focuses on social issues, photography and music.