Petr Hlaváček is an architect and university lecturer. As an architect, he worked in the Alfa studio of Vladimír Machonin and then ran the R.U.A. studio with Hana Seho and the Headhand studio with his wife Magdalena. In 2015, he became Director of the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Praha). Since 1990, he has also been a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague.