This article explores the lesser-known furniture designs of Alfred Neumann, a visionary modernist architect whose innovative thinking shaped postwar architecture in Israel and beyond. Focusing on a modular chair designed by Neumann for the Slezák villa in Brno in the 1930s, the study investigates its structural and proportional relationship to his later architectural works. Through […]
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Michal Maximilián Scheer
In 1925, the first architecture graduates completed their studies at the two technical universities in Brno – the Czech and the German institutions. Among them was Maximilián Scheer. The existence of a significant body of unique written and visual archival materials reveals not only details about the course of Scheer’s studies, his pedagogical guidance, and […]
The History and Context of the Brno Ring Boulevard
Frequently compared to Vienna’s Ringstrasse, the Brno ring boulevard must nonetheless – despite the shared association with Ludwig Förster – be considered a completely unique urban development, dating to the end of the 18th century. Competition proposals for the design of the Brno ring boulevard predetermined the final form of the regulatory plan, which was used […]
A Melange of Resolution
kali- / ARCH- / FI-FO / TYPO.František Kalivoda (1913–1971):vize a návraty modernismu,2023Chatrný, Jindřich and Svobodová, Markéta (eds.) Brno: Brno City Museum and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of SciencesISBN 978-80-86549-32-3
Architectural Competition Designs and the Construction of the International Hotels by Stavoprojekt Brno
Issue:
2022, Volume 56, Number 1‒2
The article focuses on the state design organization Stavoprojekt and its involvement in international architectural competitions for hotels in Czechoslovakia mainly in the 1960s. The research draws upon newly discovered archival materials, among them hotel plans for the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary and Prague. Although Stavoprojekt and its branch in Brno are known […]
Brno’s Villa Tugendhat: Eight Decades
Issue:
2012, Volume 46, No. 1 - 2
In March of 2012, after two years of restoration, the renowned Villa Tugendhat was opened once again to visitors. After over eight decades, it is now possible to see the house in the condition that it enjoyed shortly after its construction in 1930. Thanks to recent research findings regarding the wider context of its urban […]
Zdeněk Řihák’s Hotel Buildings and the State Project Institute of Trade Brno
Issue:
2021, Volume 55, No. 1 - 2
The text briefly describes the operation of one of the state planning establishments for hotel construction in Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 1990, placing the architectural work of SPITB employee Zdeněk Řihák within the global context of that time. The Czechoslovak hotel production and the work of Zdeňek Řihák is analysed on for case studies: Hotel […]