House on the Waves of Change - Book Launch
The Brno Radio Building, its creator Ernst Wiesner, and the history of radio broadcasting in Brno are brought closer through the new representative publication "House on the Vine of Changes." It was published by the Obecní dům Brno association in cooperation with Czech Radio Brno.
The publication was released on Friday, the eve of the 133rd anniversary of Ernst Wiesner's birth. It also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the start of radio broadcasting in what is now the Czech Republic. The monograph follows the historically largest renovation of the building of the former Czech Bank Union on Beethovenova Street 4, where the Brno radio studio has been located since 1950. The work, including technologies, cost over 130 million crowns, lasted four years, and was completed in 2022.
The content of the book captures, among other things, the return of the spaces to their historical state nearly a hundred years ago through detailed photographs. Many published photographs are seen for the first time in this way. They confirm the exceptional approach of Ernst Wiesner, who was only 35 years old at the time of the building's completion in 1925. He thus had ahead of him the creation of a series of admired buildings not only in Brno - such as the Stiassni villa or the Brno crematorium. In the bank building, he applied previously unseen solutions - greenery on the roof or a giant skylight.
“We are pleased that we can now showcase all of this in this form, demonstrating how the nobility of the First Republic was successfully combined with the needs of modern radio operation,” adds the director of Czech Radio Brno, Hana Ondryášová.
Architect Miloš Klement from the Atelier Tišnovka, which guaranteed the reconstruction and publication, described the building as exceptional. “It foreshadowed many buildings of modern architecture in Brno,” he emphasizes.
For this reason, the book is being published by the architects' association Obecní dům Brno as part of an edition commemorating Brno's extraordinary position in the world of architecture.
Because it is a representative publication, it will not be available for regular sale. Interested parties can purchase it at the Stiassni villa box office on Hroznová Street in Brno, which is also a work of Ernst Wiesner. The site is accessible to visitors even in winter. It can also be purchased in writing from the publisher, the association Obecní dům Brno. The price is 460 crowns.
The reconstruction of the Union bank building (and now the radio) is among the most praised interventions of its kind in Moravia. It succeeded in the competition for the best-restored monument in the South Moravian Region and, during tours and open days last year alone, was admired by thousands of visitors.
The publication was released on Friday, the eve of the 133rd anniversary of Ernst Wiesner's birth. It also coincides with the 100th anniversary of the start of radio broadcasting in what is now the Czech Republic. The monograph follows the historically largest renovation of the building of the former Czech Bank Union on Beethovenova Street 4, where the Brno radio studio has been located since 1950. The work, including technologies, cost over 130 million crowns, lasted four years, and was completed in 2022.
The content of the book captures, among other things, the return of the spaces to their historical state nearly a hundred years ago through detailed photographs. Many published photographs are seen for the first time in this way. They confirm the exceptional approach of Ernst Wiesner, who was only 35 years old at the time of the building's completion in 1925. He thus had ahead of him the creation of a series of admired buildings not only in Brno - such as the Stiassni villa or the Brno crematorium. In the bank building, he applied previously unseen solutions - greenery on the roof or a giant skylight.
“We are pleased that we can now showcase all of this in this form, demonstrating how the nobility of the First Republic was successfully combined with the needs of modern radio operation,” adds the director of Czech Radio Brno, Hana Ondryášová.
Architect Miloš Klement from the Atelier Tišnovka, which guaranteed the reconstruction and publication, described the building as exceptional. “It foreshadowed many buildings of modern architecture in Brno,” he emphasizes.
For this reason, the book is being published by the architects' association Obecní dům Brno as part of an edition commemorating Brno's extraordinary position in the world of architecture.
Because it is a representative publication, it will not be available for regular sale. Interested parties can purchase it at the Stiassni villa box office on Hroznová Street in Brno, which is also a work of Ernst Wiesner. The site is accessible to visitors even in winter. It can also be purchased in writing from the publisher, the association Obecní dům Brno. The price is 460 crowns.
The reconstruction of the Union bank building (and now the radio) is among the most praised interventions of its kind in Moravia. It succeeded in the competition for the best-restored monument in the South Moravian Region and, during tours and open days last year alone, was admired by thousands of visitors.
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