LECTURE 24/06/24: Czech Functionalism 1918-1938

With three centres – Prague, Brno and Baťa´s Zlín – in which economic and architectural potential was concentrated, Czechoslovakia soon became one of the now-forgotten foci of international style, documenting a wide spectrum of various nuances of functionalism from rationalist to aerodynamic and organic architectural concepts that represent proudly the democracy and humanism of Masaryk's time. This phenomenon was stopped only by the Nazi occupation and later by the communist dictatorship, and today it is one of the important components of the cultural discours and heritage.

Prof. Vladimír Šlapeta studied architecture in Prague. From 1973-1991 he was director of the architectural department of the National Technical Museum in Prague and following the Velvet Revolution in 1989 he became Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Prague and later in Brno. He was a Fulbright-Masaryk scholar at the Cooper Union in New York and is a member of the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin. He is the author of many exhibitions and books on Central European architecture of 20th century.

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Images courtesy of the lecturer. from the top, the Roškot Theatre in Ústí nad Orlicí, the Černá růže Building on Na příkopě in Prague, the villa of Ferdinand Kremer in Hlučín