Prague 20th Century Architecture
Prague 20th Century Architecture

Author: Michael Kohout

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1999-04-22

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9783211832295

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This pocket-sized yet comprehensive guidebook to modern architecture in Prague shows its development from the Art Nouveau and beginnings of the Modern Style at the turn of the 20th century, the unique Cubist buildings from the years before World War I, the "National Style" of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic, the functionalist avant-garde of the inter-war period, the most remarkable examples of post-World War II buildings, and the revival of architectural production after 1989. 200 pages cover 220 buildings spanning the period 1900 to 1997. Each entry contains a descriptive text, period photographs, and selected entries are provided with plans. An indispensable companion for discovering the vast architectural heritage of the Czech capital.

Prague
Prague

Author: Ivan Margolius

Publisher: B. T. Batsford Limited

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781899858187

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This guide looks at a broad range of architecture in Prague, providing an understanding of the historical and political contexts that have shaped it. It focuses on significant projects built since 1990 as well as providing practical information for vistors.

Prague
Prague

Author: Zdeněk Lukeš

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9788086085067

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Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings

Author: Karel Teige

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780892365968

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This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Teige's principal work on modernism, now in English for the first time, is supplemented by a selection of his other writings on art and architecture.

Prague
Prague

Author: Jana Claverie

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Prague has Defined Itself Since the Very Early 20th Century as the Artistic and Cultural Capital of Europe as Well as the Leader of the European Artistic Avant-Gardes Throughout the 20th Century. It is in Prague that for the First Time, the Bold Audacities of the Cubist and Surrealist Movements Developed; Still Today, the Czech Capital is an Important Center of Innovations in Contemporary Art. But Prague has also Been a City Teeming With Architectural Experiments all Throughout the 20th Century; From the Splendour of Art Nouveau to the Famous Ginger & Fred Building by F. O. Gerhy and to the Actual Creations by J. Nouvel, Prague's Architectural Achievements Centralize the Architectural History of the 20th Century. Book jacket.

The New Vision for the New Architecture
The New Vision for the New Architecture

Author: Jaroslav Anděl

Publisher: Resource Pathways

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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This book explores the significant body of architectural photographs produced in Czechoslovakia in the period of the 1920s and 1930s. In these important years, both architects and photographers saw themselves as participants in the creation of a new world, pursuing beliefs in social and technological utopias. Practitioners in the two fields shared and stimulated each other's vision, fostering interplay that consisted of mutual influences, parallels, and affinities. The process of modernization as well as the creation of nation states and the rise of the middle class started later in Central Europe than in Western Europe. With its young middle class, Czechoslovak state eagerly embraced modern ideas and recognized in architecture a powerful tool for expressing its goals and ideals. For this reason, Czechoslovakia became one of the centers of the modern movement in architecture in the 1920s and 1930s. -- From publisher's description.