Ten centuries of European architecture & heritage
Josef Gočár was one of the leading lights of the modern movement in Czech architecture. A pupil of Jan Kotěra, his earliest work was influenced by English vernacular style. For his civic buildings, however, he turned to a stricter, linear form, at first working in the deco ‘rondocubist’ style, and finally embracing the pure, clean lines of functionalism.
Agriculture had been studied as an academic discipline since the 1780s in Prague, but it was the emergence of the fledgling state of Czechoslovakia in 1918 that prompted widescale practical reforms to the agricultural economy....
The Bank of the Legions (Legionářská banka, or Legiobanka) was founded in 1919 in the Siberian city of Irkutsk as a depository for the savings of Czechoslovak soldiers returning from the First World War. As...
The ‘House of the Black Madonna’ occupies a corner plot between the streets of Celetná and Ovocný trh (Fruitmarket) in Prague’s Old Town. Its facade and the unique interior were designed in 1911 by Josef...
In 1929, to commemorate the millennial of the martyrdom of St Wenceslas, three major commissions were undertaken for the Catholic Church in Prague. The cathedral of St Vitus – begun in the 14th century –...
