<translation>Discussion with architect Petr Všetečka on the occasion of the book release</translation>

Conversation with the author Arch. Petr Vštečka, who will introduce the new publication Architect Zdeněk Plesník / Villa Miroslav Zikmund. The book maps the exceptional work of Zdeněk Plesník, a key figure in the post-war architecture of Zlín. Its core is represented by Zikmund's villa – a house originally built between 1933 and 1935 for Josef Janůštík and significantly adapted in the 1950s by Plesník for traveler Miroslav Zikmund, who lived and worked there for more than sixty years. The villa is an example of modernist handwriting and a personal story at the intersection of architecture, design, and cultural history; it also features the original interior furnishings designed by Miroslav Navrátil. The texts by Petr Vštečka and Rostislav Švácha place the villa in broader contexts and bring closer to other Plesník's buildings (e.g., the villas of Jiří Hanzelka and Zdeněk Liška). The publication is accompanied by a rich visual section with archival and contemporary photographs, drawings, and sketches in the graphic design of Zdeněk Macháček (studio 6.15).

Author's word:
The book loosely follows the exhibition project and catalog of 3 villas by Zdeněk Plesník from 2001 and significantly expands the comprehensive archival material first published at that time. Zikmund's villa has meanwhile become well-known and is entering the international community of house-museums as its distinctive part. The book aims to accompany it in this regard. I tried to answer in it questions that remained unspoken for various reasons a quarter of a century ago. I also broadly map Zdeněk Plesník's work in the book, a creator of outstanding industrial architecture that our society has failed to protect from extinction.