Churches and other buildings of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church as an undervalued part of the interwar Czechoslovak architecture

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