Mladá fronta publishes a book about the architect F. A. Libera

Mladá fronta publishes the book Architect F. A. Libra (A Handful of Memories of Father), authored by his daughter Eva Librová. This is the first volume of the editorial series Sources for the History of Architecture and Construction, prepared in cooperation with the National Technical Museum.
The first title from the new editorial series Sources for the History of Architecture and Construction, which is a joint project of the National Technical Museum and the publishing house Mladá fronta, presents the personality of František Albert Libra (1891-1958). Libra was one of the architects who managed to combine the ethos of the First Republic, high professionalism, and rational thought into a visually impressive and functionally flawless whole known as "harmonious rationalism." During his independent practice, he designed dozens of residential and public buildings, including outstanding interiors, exhibition installations, and exhibition designs. He achieved his most significant successes in the architecture of financial institutions, industrial buildings, and the solitary state sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis in Vyšné Hágy in Slovakia. Eva Librová's memories portray the architect as a versatile personality with a wide range of interests and rich social contacts, which makes them a valuable testimony of life "during the First Republic."

279 CZK | hardcover without dust jacket | 136 pages | 165 x 235 mm
ISBN 978-80-204-1866-1

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PhDr. Eva Librová, CSc., was born in 1923 in Prague. She studied Slavic philology (Czech studies) and philosophy (psychology and sociology) at the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague (1945-1950). She completed external doctoral studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University at the Department of Theory and History of Architecture (1958-1965). After defending her candidate dissertation on the Social Conditions for the Development of Standardization of Residential Buildings and the Use of Sociological Methods to Determine the Needs of Residents in the Preparation of Types, she obtained the title of Candidate of Technical Sciences. From 1952 to 1983, she worked at the Research Institute of Construction and Architecture (VÚVA) in the Department of Architectural Theory and the Department of Sociology. In her work, she focused on selected problems of architectural theory (she worked with the architectural theorist Vítězslav Procházka on the Development of Theoretical Views on Architecture, 1964). She conducted sociological surveys of housing in new residential areas, studies of recreational housing, and surveys of leisure time among residents of housing estates in the Czech Republic (e.g., Free Time in Housing Estates, Ing. J. Musil et al., People and Housing Estates, 1985). She published the results of her work mainly in architectural journals. In retirement, she is engaged in dealing with the professional legacy of her father, Ing. arch. František Albert Libra.