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Prague, Czech Republic
Prague-based architect Jan Žaloudek is drawn to places with a past—Baroque barns, hillside vineyards, city attics—and gives them a second life through measured additions and custom details. A graduate of the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, with further study at New York’s School of Visual Arts, he first co-founded the experimental collective Družina before opening his own studio in 2020.
Projects such as House Oskar—a South-Bohemian barn reimagined as a light-filled retreat—and the Cinemart offices in Prague show his method: honour the existing fabric, insert clear volumes, and finish with furniture designed in the same workshop. Stone, brick, and oak often stay visible; new steel or glass arrives only where structure and daylight demand it.
Žaloudek’s work appears in international journals and has been recognised among the Czech Republic’s top emerging practices. Whether designing a small winery, a riverside footbridge, or a family house, he approaches each brief as a dialogue between memory and modern use, convinced that architecture earns meaning when old and new learn to share the same walls.
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