The Art and Architecture of Kaplicky

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Jan Kaplicky

(born April 18, 1937, Prague, Czech. [now Czech Rep.]—died Jan. 14, 2009, Prague), Czech-born architect who created futuristic organically inspired designs that challenged some of the most basic ideas of modern architecture. His best-known designs were for the spaceshiplike semimonocoque Media Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, which in 1999 won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, and the aluminum-covered, virtually windowless Selfridges department store in Birmingham, Eng., which won a RIBA Award in 2004. Kaplicky trained at Prague’s College of Applied Art and Architecture, but after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968), he settled in London, where he worked with Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano on the design for the multicoloured Pompidou Centre in Paris. When Rogers and Piano relocated to France, he joined (1979–83) Foster Associates and cofounded (1979) his own London-based firm, Future Systems. In 2007 Kaplicky’s undulating “blob” design won the international competition to build a Czech National Library, but the Czech government refused to fund the project, which would have been Kaplicky’s first building in his native country.

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Taken on: February 24, 2011

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