Architectures

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Architectures

I have always been interested in the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit – what this relationship is and what it could become. How places shape us and how they can support our needs, relationships, and who we are. I don't believe there is one right way of doing architecture. There are as many architectures as there are ways of living, and I am fascinated by discovering them together with you.

In my practice, I primarily focus on creating permanent and temporary homes – interiors, renovations, and smaller new buildings. I also consider public space to be a collective home shared by society.

For me, the architectural process does not begin with a preconceived idea of what a place should look like, but with a shared exploration of what we truly need from a space and how we want to live in it. I am interested not only in how a space functions and looks, but also in what it allows us to experience, what relationships it supports, and how it can evolve together with us.

The atmosphere of a place, its materiality, and sensory experience are essential to my work. I draw inspiration from spiritual traditions and feminist social critique, which bring questions of relationships, care, autonomy, and finding one's own way of living into my approach to space.

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Bio

Alžběta P. Brůhová is an independent architect. Her practice draws on spiritual traditions and feminist social critique, bringing questions of relationships, care, sensory experience, and autonomous ways of living into her exploration of space. She graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM), where she worked as coordinator of the international studio A2 | Future Architectures Platform from 2022 to 2026. In 2019, she co-founded Architektky with her colleague Adéla Pečlová, a platform that provides opportunities for women working in the field of building culture to connect, exchange knowledge, and pursue further education.