Michal Postránecký is a Czech architect. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture, Czech Technical University in Prague. His portfolio includes work in the Czech Republic, Russia and the USA. Since 2000 he has been living and working in the US. There he established the Gulf Coast Green Development design studio. In the Czech Republic he founded the GEN61 architectural studio in 2016.

He designed Planet Hollywood Westgate in Las Vegas, a high-rise building with 52 floors. He is the author of other projects such as Vegas Tower (Las Vegas, NV), Kings Court Resort (Lanaii, Hawai), Lake Havasu Apartment Resort (Arizona), Laughlin Residential Complex (Nevada), Moscow Residence – 6,000 m2 (Moscow, Russia), the concept of a “smart” city (Morocco) or the concept of an experimental robotic-rehabilitation clinic for the Regi Base Foundation and others. In urban and architectural projects he promotes not only the use of intelligent systems, but also the use of modern smart tools, methods of cooperation and sharing of information and data at all stages of the life cycle of the proposed structures. He prefers a visually augmented digital information environment, from the data input analysis phase through the subsequent prediction and design, building implementation, subsequent facility and property management and traffic management.

He founded and runs the Center of City of Future, a professional platform within the Intelligent Systems Department of the CIIRC Czech Technical University in Prague. CMB is focused on the further development of cities of all sizes and their parts, regions and other urban structures in the countryside, also with the implementation of innovative technologies. CMB connects academic, commercial and municipal spheres. He is a promoter of the development of urban structures as complex, holonic social-physical-cybernetic systems, with its own identity of its individual parts. 

Within CIIRC, he works in the Smart Cities Department on the AI ​​& Reasoning project and the EU-funded optimization of processes between the urban subsystems. He sees the urban structures as living organisms whose existence and healthy development depend on the frequency, attractiveness of transactions, and the degree of innovation in the given area and its near and distant surroundings.He is the author of the Prague Virtual Model concept and works with experts on new ways of visualization methods for imaging actions and processes in the physical and virtual world, in so-called ‘virtual twins’ for urban systems. He is a partner in the Consilia Futura consortium, which focuses on designing Smart Biotic Pump complex solutions for areas that are at risk of drought. He is the founder of SynopCity.com, a global platform dedicated to sharing information, knowledge and experience, focusing on implementing technologies into existing and future cities. He is the author and co-author of a number of expert articles on Smart Cities and related issues. He co-authored the book “Cities of the Future” (2018). He offers his services in addition to the Czech Republic primarily in English and Russian-speaking territories, but thanks to cooperation with various partners also in other territories, such as Arab-speaking countries, China and others.