<p>130 years ago, architect and urban planner Kamil Roškot was born</p>

Prague - Architect and urban planner Kamil Roškot, who was born 130 years ago, on April 29, 1886, was a visionary, striving to reimagine urban structures into ideal geometric formations. His perhaps most significant realization is the theater in Ústí nad Orlicí. Roškot is also the author of several villas, designed the modifications of the royal tomb in St. Vitus Cathedral, and was behind the design of Czechoslovak pavilions at exhibitions in Milan (1928) and Chicago (1933).

He also realized buildings in his hometown of Vlašim (for example, the Sokol gym), is the author of the lock in Vrané nad Vltavou, and co-authored the airport in Ruzyně. Roškot was pivotal in the founding of the Association of Architects, was a member of the Mánes Association of Fine Artists, and a founding member and chairman of the Association of Academic Architects (1928 to 1945).

His sister Anna also had artistic talent - she focused on landscape painting and architectural painting, and excelled as a painter of animals and an illustrator.

Roškot died on July 12, 1945, in Paris, at the age of 59.