Taller BAC
Native Landscapes
Morari
Coming Soon
Practica Arquitectura
Creative Convergence in Practice
V Taller
Towards a harmonious practice
3 M E
Identity, Territory, Culture
GRADO
Learning from the local
MATERIA
Blending Integrity with Innovation
BARBAPIÑA Arquitectos
Designing for a sense of belonging
[labor_art:orium]
Architecture rooted in emotion, functionality,
and truth
OBVdS Workshops
Fostering a Dialogue-Driven Adaptability
HW Studio
Designing Spaces with Emotional Depth
MAstudio
Building Authentically, Impacting Lives
JDEstudio
Stories Behind the Structures
TAH
From Constraints
to Opportunities
Inca Hernandez
Shaping a Timeless
Future for Design
TORU Arquitectos
A dynamic duo
blending bold visions
Estudio AMA
Redefining Narrative
Driven spaces
NASO
Designing for Change
and Growth
RA!
Global Influences,
Localised Innovations
MRD
Embracing local context
and community
MANUFACTURA
Reclaiming Design Through
Heritage and Technology
Fill this form to have the opportunity to join the New Generations platform: submissions will be reviewed on a daily-basis, and the most innovative practices will have the chance to be part of the media's coverage and participate in our cultural agenda, including events, research projects, workshops, exhibitions and publications.
New Generations is a European platform that investigates the changes in the architectural profession ever since the economic crisis of 2008. We analyse the most innovative emerging practices at the European level, providing a new space for the exchange of knowledge and confrontation, theory, and production.
Since 2013, we have involved more than 3.000 practices from more than 50 countries in our cultural agenda, such as festivals, exhibitions, open calls, video-interviews, workshops, and experimental formats. We aim to offer a unique space where emerging architects could meet, exchange ideas, get inspired, and collaborate.
A project by Itinerant Office
Within the cultural agenda of New Generations
Editor in chief Gianpiero Venturini
Team Akshid Rajendran, Ilaria Donadel, Bianca Grilli
If you have any questions, need further information, if you'd like to share with us a job offer, or just want to say hello please, don't hesitate to contact us by filling up this form. If you are interested in becoming part of the New Generations network, please fill in the specific survey at the 'join the platform' section.
ertepl is a studio founded by Adam Lacina in Olomouc, Czech Republic, joined by other collaborators from around the country. From their studio space located in an old shop, ertepl is constantly redefining the boundaries between traditional concepts in architecture in order to unite material, building and landscape.
An ordinary potato
I started the studio during my studies in Liberec in 2014. From the beginning I knew I wanted my own atelier, so at first, I joined forces with a friend from school for a few projects. And this went on through the years. I always try to seek help and partnerships with different friends of different professions according to the task awaiting. And why ertepl? It is an old Czech word for potato – earth apple, yellow gem hidden under the living soil, ordinary at the first glance, but rich and tasty underneath…
Striving for a diverse methodology
Daily routine is closely connected to the schedule of our family, and the working hours show signs of chaos but freedom as well. I try to keep the work as diverse as possible – from computer, sketching, model making, discussion with clients and/or partners to manual work – spatial experiments and field trip analyses. The richer and more complex the work is, the better result will arise. However, the main part of the design process lies in model making, which helps to understand the space and materiality better. Besides, models can transfer emotions, feelings and atmospheres as well.
A lively studio space
Our studio is a former shop, directly connected to our flat, where I live together with my family. So the two worlds – private and working are leaking and blending together. My children are coming to make their own experiments in the studio quite often and clients drink their tea in our kitchen. The studio itself is a square table surrounded by architecture models, sketches, books and nature particles, turning the studio into a “cabinet of curiosities”. And there is a big shop window interacting with the street, becoming a small gallery (PRAKTIK) for related architects and artists from time to time during the year.
Removing boundaries
With more finished projects I see the importance of close contact and physical experiments. There is some kind of positive energy stored in the project through your own hands, and own mistakes. Surprisingly I found myself more curious in coincidence, improvisation and some kind of ordinariness. These “qualities” can be discovered only through time spent during construction. This makes it fun, and it is definitely the way I want to follow. To dig as deep as possible, to remove the boundaries between architect, client and builder, and to unite material, building and the landscape.
Images courtesy of ertepl