Karel Honzík

Born on September 24, 1900, in Le Croisic, Brittany, France. Studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Actively involved in interwar artistic associations - in Devětsil, the Left Front, SVU Mánes, and later in the Union of Architects. Works as an architect-designer (from 1928 to 1936 shares a studio with J. Havlíček), furniture designer, and as a specialist journalist. Writes for both domestic and foreign professional journals, later focusing more on the theoretical problems of modern architecture. Since 1945, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. He died on February 4, 1966, in Prague and is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery.
Karel Honzík began his professional career as an architect-designer, representative of the so-called "artistic" or "poetic" branch of functionalism. His joint work with Jos. Havlíček, the General Pension Institute in Prague, is one of the key functionalist buildings in Bohemia. Later, Honzík fully concentrated on professional journalism and theoretical work. His critical essays related to a sociological perspective on architecture, concentrated in the book "Creating a Lifestyle," received wide acclaim both nationally and internationally. He was also one of the first authors to draw attention to the psychological impact of architecture on humans, emphasizing the undeniable significance and demonstrable functionality of the psychological functions of architecture.