Atelier SECCO was founded in 2008 by Ing. arch. Michal Sedlář. As head architect and managing director he sets the direction of the studio and takes part in leading the individual projects. The professional backbone of the atelier is a stable team of lead engineers, senior and junior architects and other specialists. The combination of long experience and contemporary architectural thinking forms a solid basis for complete solutions to projects of various scales and types.
Ing. arch. Michal Sedlář graduated in Architecture and Building Engineering from the Faculty of Architecture, CTU Prague. He gained practical experience already during his studies, working at Hunter & Douglas, Arwen and the developer Ekospol, where he held the position of chief architect.
In 2008 he founded Atelier SECCO, which under his leadership has grown steadily and covers a wide spectrum of architectural and design work.
In 2016 Atelier SECCO, led by Ing. arch. Michal Sedlář, won the Building of the Year award of the Olomouc Region for the Thermal Park Velké Losiny.
Ing. Pavel Mikolajek is a graduate of the University of Economics with extensive experience in economics, management and international relations. For more than 15 years he held economic management positions in state administration, and for more than 20 years he was involved in military and peacekeeping operations under the auspices of the UN, including in Saudi Arabia and the former Yugoslavia.
For several years he worked at the UN in New York in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and at the same time as a diplomat of the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic to the UN.
He currently works as office director and chief financial officer of Atelier SECCO, responsible for the economic and organisational management of the company.
Karin Mikolajková has a background in economics, which she has long combined with marketing, communication and company management. She gained experience among others as a marketing specialist at Deloitte and as spokesperson of the Administration of State Material Reserves.
For more than 10 years she has been the office manager of the atelier, responsible for the complete operational and administrative running of the company. She also takes part in the communication and organisation of projects and the everyday functioning of the studio. She connects the worlds of numbers and marketing and provides the stable background that allows the architectural team to focus on designing and realising projects.