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Architecture in Prague
After 1945
Postwar Architecture
Jaroslav Fragner– Gočár´s student– Functionalism in 1930´s– After war reconstruction of
monuments – Betlem Chapel (Jan Hus), Carolinum (Charles University)
Betlem Chapel
Carolinum
Postwar ArchitectureRecontruction after the bombing by Allies
- Emauz Monastery Church, New Town, 1950´s
- Dancing House, New Town, 1990´s, Vlado Milunić, Frank Gehry
Emauz Monastery Church, New Town
Socialist RealismHotel
International, 1952-4, Stalin was expected
to visit
Stalin Monument, Letná, 1955;
zbourán 1962
• Return to „classical values“• Monumentalising historism• The aim of architecture was
to create a system of architectural forms as political-ideological signs understandable to the working people and „make him proud of his victories and work successes“.
Socialist Realism
Hotel Jalta• 1958• Fallout shelter and
underground hospital for the prominent politicians
• Statues on the terasse – A couple of agricultors with a
jug of fresh milk, agricultors huging, agricultors with a sheaf of grain
„Brussels Style“
Expo 58• Great success of the
Czecoslovak pavillon• Laterna Magika first presented
here – Alfréd Radok, Miloš Forman– Acting on the stage and on the
screen at the same time
• Bright colours, inventive use of materials
• Reaction on the socialist realism
Pavilon, destroyed
Restaurant, nowadays at Letná
park
„Brussels Style“Tramway Tatra T3, the most successful model produced since 1960´s Podolí Swimming Pool, Prague 4
Karel Prager• Federal Assembly, 1966-73
– Used a building from the 1930´s– Use of a bridge girder– Large suspended glass wall
• New scene, National Theatre (Laterna Magika)
• Skewed shape lined with more than four thousand blown glass bricks with diverse profilation – form together a huge relief. Unique use of glass.
• Strict elegance, non-decorativeness, comfort
Federal Assembly
New Scene
Architecture of the 1970´sUnderground, since 1974- Nusle Bridge
- Stability threatened by heavy soviet trains
- Anděl- Reliefs with socialist topics
Colonies of prefabricated houses- 1950´s, 1960´s Prosek,
Petřiny - 1970´s, 1980´s, Southern
and South-Western Town
Kotva Shopping Mall
1970-5, Hexagons interconected by escalators
Architecture of the 1970´s
Postmodern Architecture• ČKD, Můstek
– Extensive use of concrete
1980´s
Žižkov TV Tower• 1985-1992• Controversial
destruction of a part of a Jewish cemetery...
• David Černý, Babies,2000
inspiration
Richard Rogers, London, Lloyds
Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1990´s
Dancing House
• Nationale Niederlanden, 1996
• Ginger Rogers and Fred Astair (dancing couple)
• Vlado Milunič and Frank Gehry (architects)
• From the iniciative of Václava Havel, former Czech president
Vlado Milunić
Hvězda Tenament Houses (Prague 6) – new model of housing colonies