Yvette Vašourková
Yvette Vašourková is the cofounder of the Centre for Central European Architecture and MOBA studio, which focuses on improving the urban environment in Central Europe, empowering local communities, and advancing the public good. CCEA MOBA’s core activities include research and education, urban revitalization projects, and curating and organizing design competitions. Over the past 15 years, the studio has prepared more than 100 international competitions for both the public and private sectors. A recent research project is dedicated to POPS—Privately Owned Public Spaces in Central Europe—supported by the Visegrad Fund.
As an initiator, CCEA MOBA concentrates on developing spaces around transport infrastructure and exploring new methods within both top–down and bottom–up policy frameworks. A long term project—1KM of Urban Change: The Path to Transforming Prague’s Negrelli Viaduct into a Community Asset—was a finalist for the NEB Prizes 2025 and was nominated for the Mies Award 2026.
Yvette studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague and later completed postgraduate studies in urbanism at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. In 2018, she earned her PhD from her alma mater in Prague. She served as a guest professor at L’ESA Paris in 2019–20 and, during the 2023–24 academic year, as a Fulbright Scholar at the School of Architecture, GCPE, Pratt Institute in New York, where she focused on transforming traffic infrastructure through community engagement. Yvette currently teaches at the Architectural Institute in Prague and serves as a PhD thesis specialist at the Faculty of Architecture at CTU in Prague. She is a nominating expert for the EU Mies Award.