Michal Kohout: Social Housing in the Czech Republic - Lecture at Fiducia

We invite you to a lecture by architect and expert on social housing Michal Kohout. Social housing, in its modern form, was born in the territory of today's Czech Republic in the last quarter of the 19th century and has undergone a relatively dramatic development influenced by changes in political regimes. From the modest beginnings of worker housing construction and cooperative development through efforts to systematically address the topic during the First Republic, to the bloated system of public construction during socialism, and finally to the collapse of this concept in the post-November period and repeated efforts for revival in a new form. Architect Michal Kohout's lecture will briefly map this development, present characteristic examples of individual stages, and in conclusion focus on current topics and forms of social housing as a specific and constantly evolving building type.