Lectures will present the development of modern Czech architecture since the establishment of the independent state till the beginning of the XXIst century. Short introduction will remind the founding role of Jan Kotěra and the specific phenomenon of architectural cubism. The lectures about the period between two wars will include the main architectural tendencies as purism, funcionalism, modern classicism, as well as problems of social housing, the relation of modern architecture to the historic heritage. The discontinuity of postwar development will be presented on the background of the political changes in 1948, 1968 and 1989, and the lectures will cover both the architetectural production and the urban development with special attention paid to the theme of urban public spaces.
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Anděl, J. The New Vision for the New Architecture (Czechoslovakia 1918-1938). Praha, 2006.
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Kratochvíl, P. Czech Architecture 1918-2018. Liberec, 2019.
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Kratochvíl, P., Halík, P. Contemporary Czech Architecture (1989-2000). Praha, 2000.
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Kratochvíl, P., Merta, D. Public Space.cz- Urban Landscape. Praha, 2017.
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Lukeš, Z., Merta,D. Prague Functionalism:Tradition and Contemporary Echoes (exibition catalogue). Praha, 2012.
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Petrasová, T., Švácha, R. Art in the Czech Lands 800-2000. Praha - Řevnice, 2017.
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Švácha, R. Czech Architecture and its Austerity: Fifty Buildings 1989-2004. Praha, 2004.
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Švácha, R. The Pyramid, the Prism & the Arc: Czech Cubist Architecture 1911-1923. Praha, 2000.
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