A survey of the fine arts as a part of the building of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the CTU in Prague and campus of CTU - a guidebook and a documentary

The project conducts a survey of the fine arts as a part of the building of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the CTU in Prague and campus of CTU. In the framework of contemporary architecture research, which has been ongoing also at the Faculty of Civil Engineering (see NAKI II), one of the topics is also fine arts in architecture of the 1970s and following decades. The integration of artworks in the architecture was also supported by legislation (see the Act from 1965), therefore it became a part of the public buildings of that time, and it was so diverse as well in its form (from a particular form to abstraction), iconography (in the case of industrial, technical and educational motives at CTU and so on), so in used materials (the materials should have also served for presentation of glassworks, textiles, ceramics and other productions). The Faculty of Civil Engineering was planned and provided between 1962-1983 by František Čermák, Gustav Paul, Jaroslav Paroubek and Jan Čejka, within it, a variety of artworks was created, whether as a part of the architecture itself, as well as its accessory. These works are not systematic registered and interpreted; and it is similar in other post-war objects at CTU. Although our leading artists such as Cyril Bouda, Martin Sladký, Alois Fišárek, Stanislav Libenský, Jaroslava Brychtová, Břetislav Benda, Josef Liesler (?) worked over artworks at the campus of the university (for many artworks we do not know their authors or date). The aim of the project is an archival research, a creating of a register, an information analysis, an edition of a small printed guide, possibly a designation of the art works, and filming of 26-minute-documentary that would present the visual quality of artworks. Current artwork of Marian Karel and other artists will appear also in the review.