Forgotten Generation - Invitation to the Book Presentation
Prof. Ing. arch. Matúš Dulla, DrSc., a leading historian of 20th-century Slovak architecture and a teacher at the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague and the Faculty of Architecture at Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, cordially invites you to the presentation of the book “The Forgotten Generation. Czech Architects in Slovakia" published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the most significant wave of Czech architects in Slovakia.
The book presentation with the participation of some co-authors will take place on Friday, September 27, 2019, at 1 PM in the Information Center of Czech Technical University, Air House, Thákurova, Prague 6.
“Who today knows about Czech architects working in Slovakia?”
How many were there? Dozens? Hundreds? Did they return? Did they stay? Which works were created on their drawing boards? Have we forgotten them?
The book brings closer the history and significance of their work and pays attention to social and cultural contexts. At the same time, it asks whether their architecture differed from an ethnic perspective, or whether they were all enthusiastic about modernity, and examines how they responded to Prague influences, to models from Bauhaus, from Le Corbusier, or from F. L. Wright.
In the most detailed biographies to date, it describes the turbulent fates, significant, but also forgotten works of the rondocubist and functionalist Klement Šilinger, the author of the famous Bratislava apartment building Avion by Josef Mark, the immensely productive duo Alois Balán and Jiří Grossmann, or the architecturally as well as humanly remarkable Jindřich Mergan. For those who taught the first Slovak architectural generation, you will read about the Slovak stage of the globe-trotter Vladimír Karfík, the savior of Bratislava Castle Alfred Piffle, and the co-founder of the Prague modern avant-garde Jan E. Koula.
The book, written with admiration for the great work of Czech architects, compares their work with what was simultaneously being created in Slovakia.
The book was written by a group of Slovak and Czech historians of architecture, who were gathered for this project by Matúš Dulla. They represent four generations of architects. The older ones knew the great figures of architectural history personally, while the younger ones, with some distance in time, realized the debt that Czech and Slovak historiography owes to Czech and Moravian architects who intertwined their fates with Slovakia.
The book presentation with the participation of some co-authors will take place on Friday, September 27, 2019, at 1 PM in the Information Center of Czech Technical University, Air House, Thákurova, Prague 6.
“Who today knows about Czech architects working in Slovakia?”
How many were there? Dozens? Hundreds? Did they return? Did they stay? Which works were created on their drawing boards? Have we forgotten them?
The book brings closer the history and significance of their work and pays attention to social and cultural contexts. At the same time, it asks whether their architecture differed from an ethnic perspective, or whether they were all enthusiastic about modernity, and examines how they responded to Prague influences, to models from Bauhaus, from Le Corbusier, or from F. L. Wright.
In the most detailed biographies to date, it describes the turbulent fates, significant, but also forgotten works of the rondocubist and functionalist Klement Šilinger, the author of the famous Bratislava apartment building Avion by Josef Mark, the immensely productive duo Alois Balán and Jiří Grossmann, or the architecturally as well as humanly remarkable Jindřich Mergan. For those who taught the first Slovak architectural generation, you will read about the Slovak stage of the globe-trotter Vladimír Karfík, the savior of Bratislava Castle Alfred Piffle, and the co-founder of the Prague modern avant-garde Jan E. Koula.
The book, written with admiration for the great work of Czech architects, compares their work with what was simultaneously being created in Slovakia.
The book was written by a group of Slovak and Czech historians of architecture, who were gathered for this project by Matúš Dulla. They represent four generations of architects. The older ones knew the great figures of architectural history personally, while the younger ones, with some distance in time, realized the debt that Czech and Slovak historiography owes to Czech and Moravian architects who intertwined their fates with Slovakia.
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