Biography
Vesely was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1934. He studied engineering, architecture, art history and philosophy in Prague and in Munich and obtained his PhD from Charles University in Prague. He studied with Hans-Georg Gadamer, with whom he kept a correspondence that would last until the end of Gadamer's life. He was also taught by Jan Patočka and has developed an interest in the poetics and hermeneutics of architecture.
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