Based in Sydney, Australia, Foundry is a blog by Rebecca Thao. Her posts explore modern architecture through photos and quotes by influential architects, engineers, and artists.
Michal Drozen Start up End down 13.02–12.04. 2015 Prague City Gallery, Prague
Curator: Monika Čejková
Photo: Tomáš Souček
Growing up in one of Prague’s housing developments, somewhere like the city’s Southwestern District, entails two existential options: namely, either you acquire a certain affinity for this type of residence in a concrete block of flats, or you do your utmost to pack up and leave as soon as possible; which, of course, fails to mention the variant where you have no real choice. In the case of Michal Drozen, an affinity for life in a housing development has evolved into a sentiment quite close to love. Recently in fact, he even found himself a studio in a concrete block of flats in the quarter of Žižkov, overlooking more such blocks, a fact that has since projected into a number of Michal’s drawings faithfully copying the uniform facades of houses across the street.
