Research projects
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duration of the project
2023-2027
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duration of the project
2019
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duration of the project
2018-2022
Annotation
Czech post-war architecture has in recent years been the subject of substantial attention from the professional community and the general public. Dozens of publications, exhibitions, and research projects have emerged that focus on the optimistic sixties and the echoes of that era in the seventies. However, the architecture of the very next decade has thus far been ignored. Despite the system of socio-political normalisation in effect at the time, the eighties are deserving of detailed research. It was a decade that produced many new ideas. Despite the political restrictions, contemporary theories made it into Czechoslovakia from abroad, and this included theories on the postmodern humanisation of modern and industrialised construction and the first signs of a more responsible approach in relation to the living environment. Many activities and discussions in the professional architectural community took on the character of a search for a parallel, humanised reality (e.g. Urbanity, Painted Architecture), and in the second half of the decade this social ferment also certainly mirrored the gradual thaw in the regime that was under way. Together with the after-effects of building projects from the sixties and seventies and alongside the highly centralised and politicised stream of standard production, the eighties saw the gradual rise of parallel alternative trends and high ambitions in architectural practice that reached well beyond the closed atmosphere of the era and the border of the socialist state. This NAKI project seeks to map the architecture of that period, its background in theory, and specific projects, buildings, interiors, and structures, and also aims to make a record of the current condition of the building stock from that period.
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Brankov, N.
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duration of the project
2018
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This project continues in the scientific research activities of the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Civil Engineering in the unexplored systematically and unevaluated area of the architecture of interwar Czechoslovakia: churches and other buildings with sacral and cultural character of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (CHC), one of the institutional pillars of the modern Czechoslovak state after its founding in 1918. Specialists and Ph.D. students of the Department of Architecture in co-operation with representatives of the CHC have been worked on this topic for some time, and a major emphasis is put on the completion and presentation of the results in 2018, which is the year of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak (first) Republic. The aim of the project is to support this research, co-finance of the realization (publishing) of original scientific publication (monograph) and finance of the presentation of the most significant examples of architecture to the wider public in the form of a documentary exhibition. The unique building heritage of churches and the building culture of CHC after the founding of the independent Czechoslovak state can be interpreted in general as a part of building of the new democratic state after 1918, even in the wider public, social, and cultural contexts. The architecture of the CHC from the interwar period (1918-1945) has not been fully worked out yet, although it forms an important part of the space of a number of towns and municipalities in the Czech Republic. It is also an important component of the architecture from the period of the first Republic: representing the displays from historism to the progressive form tendencies and the creation of prominent architects (Josef Gočár, Pavel Janák, Bohumír Kozák, Jiří Stibral, Emanuel and Josef Kittrich, Miroslav Kouřil etc.) and architects and builders of regional importance (Jan Víšek, Jindřich Freiwald, Vladimír Wallenfels, Hubert Aust, Karel Truks, Vác
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department
duration of the project
2017
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duration of the project
2017
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Dulla, M.
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duration of the project
2016
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Dulla, M.
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duration of the project
2016
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Dulla, M.
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duration of the project
2014
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Dulla, M.
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duration of the project
2013