Rusina Frei architekti

The Rusina Frei Architects design studio was founded in 2013 by two architects, Martin Rusina and Martin Frei, who, by pure chance, shared office space. Martin Rusina was born in 1974 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech University in Prague (2002) and the School of Architecture at the Academy of Fine arts (2003). During and after his studies he worked in Marek Chalupa's office, at first within the framework of DUM architekti and later in the Chalupa architekti design studio. He is the co-designer of the Hotel Metropol in Národní Třída in Prague (2007). From 2008 to 2012, he cooperated with Marcela Steinbachová in the association of architects Skupina, with both of them designing for example the Exhibition of Transport History at the National Technical Museum (2011) or the restoration of an old wooden house in the Swiss village of Mohren (2014).

Martin Frei was born in 1981 and in 2007 graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Brno. During and after his studies he worked in the studio of SOA architects in Paris, participating for example in a design project competition for a hostel for the A. Careme Hotel Industry College in Paris (1st place in the competition, built 2014). Between 2010 and 2011, he worked in the office of F.O.B. Architects in Kyota, Japan. After returning to the Czech Republic, he settled in Prague, working for two years as a freelance architect, undertaking for example the reconstruction of flats in Uherské Hradiště (2013) and cooperating on several larger projects with the SAM architekti design studio (e.g. blocks of flats in Lochkov).

The Rusina Frei Architects design studio takes part in many architectural design competitions, with their first breakthrough coming in 2013 when they won a competition announced by the Proměny Foundation for the regeneration of part of the banks of the River Loučná in Litomyšl (built 2017). In 2016, their permanent exhibition of household fauna and forestry was opened at the chateau in Úsov and, in the same year, a family home was completed in an ex-allotment in Zličín, Prague. Currently, the studio is preparing a design for the regeneration of a park in front of the Krakov house of culture in the Prague housing estate Bohnice (1st place in a 2015 design competition).

A specific feature of Rusina Frei architects' designs are the graceful aquarelles, seeking the atmosphere and colourfulness of the developing project.

2016
Permanent exhibition of household fauna and forestry, Úsov Chateau
Family home, Prague-Zličín