Film event in cooperation with 4AM Forum for Architecture and Media.

Program

Temples of Money – Architecture of Czech Bank and Savings Bank sin 1990s

Date: 11. November 2014. 19:00

Venue: PRAHA/Forum for Architecture and Media, Husova 18, Brno

More information: http://www.forum4am.cz/?p=5754&lang=en
The documentary film Temples of Money deals with architecture of banks and savings banks in the 1990s presenting it as a phenomenon closely related to the social and political changes following the year 1989.

A great number of new banks was built at that time, creating a specific model corresponding to the contemporary ideals of the newly developing economic sphere in a post-communist country. The architecture of these buildings was influenced by the then already fading postmodern. A heated discussion arose over the architecture of money institutions already when they were under construction, stressing for example the moral aspects related to the enormous financial costs and pompous form of these buildings. Criticism of prodigal forms and bombastic gestures referred to the very use of postmodern vocabulary. For the coming generation of young architects’ postmodern vocabulary meant an exhausted trend aimed more at commercial purposes than art.