The project focuses on the state of architecture during transformation periods, examining the Czech architecture in 1945–1948 and 1989–1992. Realized (initiated) buildings and contemporary professional debate will be analyzed using the methodology of art history and sociological and transitological knowledge. The core of the project will be the juxtaposition of long-term utopian ideological concepts of Czech architecture of the 20th century and of the immediate rhetoric of transition. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of individual actors – architects, theorists and investors – in the unsteady institutional environment of the transition period.
The project focuses on the state of architecture during transformation periods, examining the Czech architecture in 1945-1948 and 1989-1992. Realized (initiated) buildings and contemporary professional debate will be analyzed using the methodology of art history and sociological and transitological knowledge. The core of the project will be the juxtaposition of long-term utopian ideological concepts of Czech architecture of the 20th century and of the immediate rhetoric of transition. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of individual actors - architects, theorists and investors - in the unsteady institutional environment of the transition period.