The book "Famous Villas of the Vysočina Region" has been published

Jarošek Villa in Dalečín

Jihlava - The creation, fate, and current state of more than fifty villa buildings that have emerged over the last three centuries are depicted in the book Famous Villas of the Vysočina Region. Its launch took place today at the Vysočina Regional Gallery in Jihlava during the opening of an exhibition of the same name. Each building is dedicated a separate chapter accompanied by archival photographs, plans, and current images. According to the authors, only a few of the villas are on the list of immovable monuments, with some facing irreversible construction interventions.
    "The book from the Famous Villas edition presents the very first representation of the architecture of individual housing, the personalities of its designers, and the fates of builders in the Vysočina Region," said Marek Veselý from the Foibos artistic agency to ČTK. Interested parties will be able to walk through selected villas along with the authors, according to him.
    Villa and family houses from the late 19th century to the present day, according to them, demonstrate that Vysočina responded to the stylistically variable development of this type of architecture. In comparison, for instance, with Prague and Brno, as well as the Hradec Králové, Olomouc, and Zlín regions, where modern movements began to emerge as early as the 20th century, the Vysočina region rather accepted influences from outside. Either by having local designers tackle ideas from some of those centers or by having enlightened builders entrust the designs of their villas and houses to renowned architects, most often from Prague and Brno.
    Among older Prague architects, Josef Gočár, Kamil Hilbert, Antonín and Bohumil Hübschmann, and Pavel Janák left their marks in Vysočina, while Bohumír Čermák came from Brno. Representatively, among Prague members of the interwar avant-garde functionalists, Ludvík Hilgert is represented by the Jarošek Villa in Dalečín, followed by Lev Krča and Josef Štěpánek, and from Brno Otto Eisler, Bohuslav Fuchs, and Mojmír Kyselka. Builders of German nationality from Jihlava, on the other hand, turned to more traditionally oriented architects among the Prague Germans.