The architect John Eisler has died, co-author of the department store Máj

Prague – On Thursday, Czech architect and co-author of the Prague department store Máj, John Eisler, passed away. He was 78 years old. The Czech Chamber of Architects informed about his death on their website yesterday.

"With John Eisler, we lose a significant personality who enriched Czech architecture with a global perspective and introduced innovative dimensions into realizations, especially during the totalitarian regime," stated the Czech Chamber of Architects.

Eisler was born in 1946 in London. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, was a member of the Liberec School SIAL, and later worked at the atelier 02 of Stavoprojekt Liberec. In the 1970s and 1980s, he designed, alongside Miroslav Masák and Emil Přikryl, the reconstruction of the former Trade Fair Palace for the National Gallery in Prague and, with Masák and Martin Rajniš, the department store Máj on Národní Street.

The Czech Chamber of Architects noted that since 1983, Eisler worked for nearly 20 years as a partner in Richard Meier's studio in New York. Among other projects, he contributed as an architect to the administrative building City Tower in Pankrác, which was designed by Meier's office. In 2003, he established his own office in New York, but since 2006, he had been fully producing in Prague, just like his wife, jewelry designer Eva Eisler. He primarily designed residential buildings.