Kateřina Frejlachová, Miroslav Pazdera, Tadeáš Říha, Martin Špičák.
Kateřina Frejlachová, Miroslav Pazdera, Tadeáš Říha, Martin Špičák.

Logistics Landscapes

Kateřina Frejlachová, Miroslav Pazdera, Tadeáš Říha, Martin Špičák

In the last four years, the warehouse area in the Czech Republic has doubled. Czechia’s strategic position as almost one of the richest regions in Europe, together with lower prices for land, lower building costs, an affordable and less socially protected labor force, stable but weak state regulation, make for ideal conditions for the construction of new logistics centers. On top of the well-known saying: “Czechia – Europe’s assembly shop”, we can now call our country Europe’s transshipment point, too.

Logistics parks, all the huge warehouses that we see along the roads, are nothing else but a reflection of the current economy and culture. They can’t be simply “solved”, or condemned as such. On the following pages, we try to grasp the context of this phenomenon that is transforming our landscape so radically. If architecture is the thing that puts warehouses together, we believe that it should also be able to critically break them down. Logistics is, on one hand, spatially represented by banal materiality and form and by shallow planning and construction processes, and, on the other, hand by abstract global chains, utopian technologies and robotization. We try to explore each of these aspects in the issue and offer the readers a fairly critical sketch of the logistics landscape.

The title of this issue is taken from last year’s VI PER Gallery exhibition. Following this exhibition, we prepared a Czech-English book, Steel Cities: The Architecture of Logistics in Central and Eastern Europe, to be published this March. Included therein are contributions from us as well as numerous Czech and international authors from various fields of expertise.

 

Send e-mail back »


ERA21 vydává ERA Média, s. r. o.
Chleborádova 69/22, 619 00 Brno

Phone: +420 530 500 801
E-mail: redakce@era21.cz
Projekt se v roce 2024 uskutečňuje za finanční podpory: Ministerstva kultury ČR, Nadace české architektury, Statutárního města Brna a Státního fondu kultury ČR.
Copyright ©2004-2024 ERA Média, s.r.o
Použití článků a fotografií nebo jejich částí je bez souhlasu vydavatele zakázáno.

Information about cookies on this page

To get an idea of what you like to read, we use cookies on the website, which we process in accordance with the privacy policy. If you want to let us know what you are interested in, please give your consent to the processing of all types of cookies.

 

Cookie settings

The cookies that are used on this site are divided into categories and below you can find out more about each category and allow or deny some or all of them. Once you disable categories that were previously enabled, all cookies associated with that category will be deleted from your browser.