Honored architect and mentor associate professor Josef Kiszka has died
Honored architect and mentor associate professor Josef Kiszka has died
On Saturday, October 29 at noon, doc died in Havířov . Ing.
architect Josef Kiszka, head of the Design Institute of the Faculty of Architecture of the University
technical education in Brno.
Doc. Ing. arch. Josef Kiszka was born in 1952 in
Životice, studied architecture at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the University
technical school in Brno (1970-76), then completed postgraduate studies
urbanism and spatial planning at the Faculty of Architecture BUT (1987-88). In ages
1976-77 he worked at the Office of the Chief Architect in Ostrava, in 1977-90
worked at Stavoprojekt Ostrava, AT4 Havířov. In 1990, he founded in Ostrava
architectural studio ARKISS. In 1993, he obtained the Czech authorization of ČKA, 2005
received the Polish IARP authorization and in 2007 obtained design authorization for Slovakia.
In his practice, he successfully designed a number of buildings for housing and civil buildings
amenities and urban studies and plans. He participated in a number of important ones
domestic and foreign architectural competitions, where he won several prizes and
awards, including winning the 2nd prize in the 2007 competition for the Faculty's new building
of architecture at BUT and in 2016 won the competition for reconstruction and completion
Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature in Warsaw. For the interior "Café bar Belle-vue
" in Havířov (collaboration of I. Whala, T. Rusín) won the Grand Prix of the Municipality in 1994
architects. Among his most famous realizations are the Gymnasium and Business School
academy in Orlová (collaboration with B. Potysz), for which he won the Grand in 1996
prix Community of Architects. Among his other significant projects are the Centrum cinema in
Havířov (2012, collaboration B. Potysz, B. Firla), Embassy of the Czech Republic in Luxembourg
(2005, collaboration with B. Potysz) and Reconstruction of the interiors of the Theater in Český Těšín
(1998, collaboration B. Potysz). It also won in the reconstruction category in 2013
Moravian-Silesian Region Building of the Year award. In 2018, he received the Jož Award
Plečnika for lifelong contribution to architecture and construction. In addition to projection
practice was also active in a number of other areas. He has been involved in running it since its inception
Czech Chamber of Architects, where he was a member of the board between 1993-2004.
Since 1999, he has been the chairman of the Arcus Foundation.
Josef Kiszka has been teaching at FAST since 2006,
VŠB-TU Ostrava, where he was also a member of the branch council between 2015-2018
doctoral studies in Urban Engineering. In 2015, he was at the Faculty of Architecture
He became an associate professor at the BUT and a year later he became the head of the Institute of Design
and subsequently also the guarantor of the Master's study program Architecture and
urbanism. In his teaching activities, he mainly devoted himself to studio work,
management of bachelor's, master's and doctoral theses. For many students,
he became a respected mentor and a strong role model. Its straddling between the Czech Republic and Poland
benefited not only in teaching, but also in a number of research projects, international workshops
and articles.
photo : Sára Solmošiová (student of Doc. Ing. arch. Josef
Kiszky)
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