The A69 architectural studio was established by three partners (all born in 1969) in the small town of Cheb some twenty years ago. Since then we have several dozen projects and finished buildings to our credit in various locations throughout the Czech Republic.
Our designs cover a broad range of projects from interior design to houses, public buildings, health care, and office blocks, up to urban and spatial planning; although a significant number of our projects comprise of dwelling houses from single-family villas to housing developments to apartment blocks.
Our designs are regularly published in architectural magazines home and abroad and several of them have been awarded a Grand Prix – National Architecture Award. The partners teach architecture at local universities.
In our case, digitizing was the quest for the right tool. The studio started its work without any computer – all was hand drafted and hand written. The first attempt to design using computer came in 1997 but the programme we bought did not communicate well with the rest of the team. So we turned to the programme with the most significant user base. It was sufficient for 2D drafting and sharing with collaborators but failed to provide any layer for easy, quick and visually pleasing presentation purposes. In 2004, ten years after establishing the studio, we changed our main designing tool yet again, this time for good.
Using it we are able to handle small and big projects alike, we can quickly present our ideas to clients and make changes easily. It allows us to meet deliverables in shorter time with less effort and fewer errors. And while easy to use, we can employ only architects, no draftsmen are needed.
