Curriculum vitae
Education and academic qualification
Jiri Palacky is an architect and founder of the miniBrownfields initiative (2005). He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology, where he previously directed the International Exchange Programme. From 2014 to 2022, he served as Vice-Dean for Science and Doctoral Studies. Since 2016, he has been leading the Studio of Spatial Design.
His long-term professional focus on architectural design, tectonics, and sustainable urban development is reflected in his doctoral and habilitation theses as well as in scholarly publications (GIS Inventory of Traditional Manufacturing Industrial Cities in the Czech Republic after 1990, 2006; Methodology of Architectural Design: Constructive Tactile Modelling, Complex Layering and Regeneration of miniBrownfields, 2011; Space, Light and Form, 2013).
Before joining BUT (1997–2002), he worked in architectural offices UAD Studio (with A. Hladik, M. Kabela, and J. Palacky) and P.A.W. Architects (with J. Skrabal and L. Grym).
Between 2006 and 2014, he taught at BUT in collaboration with Professors P. Pelčák and V. Šlapeta and served as Vice-Dean for External Relations, focusing on cooperation with foreign universities (including IIT Chicago among others). He has lectured internationally (e.g. SARUP UW Milwaukee, ETSA Madrid, University of Brighton) and participated in international conferences and workshops (e.g. Università degli Studi di Cagliari, TU Košice, CTU MIAS Prague).
He is currently a member of the Civil Engineering Evaluation Panel of the Czech Science Foundation (GA ČR) and a reviewer for several international and Czech scientific journals. His research focuses on tectonics in architecture, parametric structures inspired by origami, architectural materiality, and the regeneration of brownfield sites and miniBrownfields. Since 2002, he has served as principal investigator or co-researcher in various national and international research projects (GA ČR, Leonardo da Vinci, SV and RP of the Ministry of Education, OP VK).
Since 1998, he has also been working as a freelance architect. His design work has been exhibited, for example, at Moonlighting – Sideways (CCEA Prague, May 2005). In 1999, he received the main prize of the Grand Prix OA Prague together with architects Skrabal and Grym for the IPB Insurance building in Brno. In 2001, he received the Grand Prix OA Prague for the interior of the House CAPITOL in Brno (in collaboration with J. Skrabal, J. Sapák and L. Grym).