The area of the company Podzimek and sons

1896 Josef Podzimek, a classmate of Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann, begins to engage in construction activities in the Brno area.
1901 He transfers his business activities to Třešť and gradually develops his firm into a thriving enterprise. Before nationalization, the company built 304 family homes in Třešť and at least 10 apartment buildings in Prague.
1948 The Communists nationalize all company assets – machine shops, a brick factory, a sawmill, a carpentry shop, quarries, forests – and manage them according to their own principles for the next 44 years.
1993 Josef Podzimek regains the original estate in Třešť through restitution and contemplates with his two sons how best to continue the old family tradition and develop it honorably. In the first few years, they devote all their energy to business – thorough cleaning and organizing production and orders.
2000 At the same time, they strive to revitalize the estate and the town by supporting various cultural events: they lend the old brick factory to theater groups for a summer festival, assist sculptor Kurt Gebauer in constructing a 25m floating maiden that emerges and submerges in the Vltava River during the celebrations of Prague - City of Culture 2000. They subsequently ask Kurt Gebauer for ideas on how to enhance the cultural atmosphere of the Třešť estate.
2001 A park with a pond and a new approach avenue lined with hornbeam trees is created in Třešť, grotesquely contrasting with the result of socialist management – a disorganized mix of buildings in various styles in different stages of decay. Kurt Gebauer introduces us to the Podzimks to attempt a joint reconstruction of the estate, preferably immediately!
We receive our first specific task – to reconstruct and complete the building of the old carpentry shop. Within six months, a new building for the management and sample room of wood production is completed, which is attached in front to the long two-story modernized industrial building of the carpentry shop. The method and speed of work are pioneering. It is clear that our concept must be very simple and maximally flexible to accommodate any future development of the company and the estate. We agreed that the buildings would not be stone, but walls (even those cyclopean), that we would paint the red history red, and that old love does not rust, but steel does, and that it doesn’t bother anyone. And that we would wrap the gradual additive extensions of small scale in such beautiful steel. We allow for certain redesigns, attempting to balance romantic garden arrangements with the disorganized structure of old buildings, which suffered from communist management.
2003-2004 Our second task is to solve the entrance to both companies located on the estate – Podzimek Wood Production and Podzimek and Sons Construction Company. A gatehouse is created, and through additional garden improvements and walls, the arrival and parking for employees, visitors, and deliveries are organized. A year later, we receive our third task – to reconstruct the building of the management office of Podzimek and Sons Construction Company – to design a new solid entrance and understandable spatial structures where customers come to discuss their orders.
2005 Kurt Gebauer is working on the concept of a garden gazebo with stone columns, topped with a steel plate, which has now been realized.