Architecture in Prague
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Architecture in Prague
After 1945
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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
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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
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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“.
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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
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„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
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„Brussels Style“Tramway Tatra T3, the most successful model produced since 1960´s Podolí Swimming Pool, Prague 4
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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
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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
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Architecture of the 1970´s
Postmodern Architecture• ČKD, Můstek
– Extensive use of concrete
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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
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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
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Vlado Milunić
Hvězda Tenament Houses (Prague 6) – new model of housing colonies