The heir to the rights after Kaplický is to be his wife

Prague - The owner of the copyrights after architect Jan Kaplický will be his wife Eliška. She will also own the Future Systems brand, the studio that Kaplický co-founded in the late 1970s. Radek Zeman, the media representative of the Kaplický family, said this to ČTK today.
The inheritance proceedings after the famous architect, who died on January 14 this year, will conclude during the summer. However, according to Zeman, it is already clear that the owner of the copyrights will be Eliška Kaplická. The Future Systems team is also prepared to begin work on projects that need to be completed after the architect's death.
Among the closest relatives of the deceased architect is also his first wife, Amanda Levete, and her son Josef, whom she had with Kaplický. Levete and Kaplický were married in 1991, lived separately by 2003, and divorced in 2006. Only shortly before Kaplický's death did they agree on the division of the office, with Kaplický retaining the name Future Systems and a team of four architects, while she remained in the original studio under the firm Amanda Levete Architects. ČTK was unable to obtain Levete's statement on the inheritance issue today.
The Future Systems studio is also responsible for the design of a new National Library building, which won an international architectural competition two years ago. However, because no preparations for the construction began even two years after the announcement of the competition results, the project returned from the ownership of the National Library to its authors in March of this year. They are also entitled to a further payment for the first place, approximately four million crowns.
Eliška Kaplická has repeatedly stated after her husband's death that she will do everything to ensure that Kaplický's library is built. She also supports the activities of several associations that have formed to support the project. The blob or octopus, as the building has started to be nicknamed, has sparked numerous discussions, and while many of its opponents have mentioned the unprepared land for construction or its high cost as the main problem of the entire project, everything faltered on the resistance of some politicians toward it.
After President Václav Klaus expressed negative opinions about the proposal, the Prague ODS began to criticize it, and eventually, Prague did not sell the promised plots of land to the National Library for the construction.
Alleged excessive demands on the state budget that the library would require were attempted to be disproved last week by people from the Foundation Fund for the Library. They published a cost plan according to which the library should be realizable for 2.3 billion crowns, roughly the price anticipated when the competition was announced.
The National Library also has a budget available, which, with its new director, has not yet ruled out the new building as a solution to its long-term spatial problems, but is reportedly being pushed toward another solution - a major reconstruction of Klementinum and the completion of the Hostivař depository.
Because it is not clear whether some politicians will want to advocate for the new building of the National Library, several of their supporters decided to establish a new party specifically to support this cause. The formation of the Blob party was announced on Sunday, citing a similar situation in Britain. A certain political entity was created primarily to save a specific architectural monument. While it did not enter parliament, it succeeded in saving the construction.