Baťa House: Disappearing Elements of Zlín Architecture
On Thursday, February 8, 2018, at 6:00 PM, a book presentation of The Baťa House: Disappearing Elements of Zlín Architecture will take place at Gallery VI PER, Vítkova 2. This book is dedicated to housing in family homes built in Zlín by the Baťa shoemaking company. This specific segment of the company's housing policy, which developed at an extraordinarily rapid pace especially during the interwar period and significantly transformed the face of the city, is presented from several different perspectives. It describes their architecture, construction system, and conveys the company's procedures for allocating houses to employees. It shows that living in a rented modern house with a high residential standard for its time also entailed a specific lifestyle, intentionally shaped by the corporation. The visual part of the book includes newly commissioned authorial photographs by Libor Stavjanik, which capture the condition of several Zlín family houses preserved in their original, unrenovated form. In most cases, Stavjanik photographed the houses just before their reconstruction, thereby documenting a state that no longer exists today.
During the evening, three of the authors of the book – Barbora Vacková, Klára Eliášová, and Jitka Ressová – will discuss the development of the building typology of these houses, the company's demands on their inhabitants, and the changes that have occurred over nearly a hundred years in the expectations of what constitutes quality housing.
Bára Vacková is a sociologist working at the Faculty of Social Studies at MU, focusing on urban sociology and housing sociology.
Klara Eliasova is an architectural historian and a member of the association PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media, focusing on the architecture of industrial enterprises and factory towns.
Jitka Ressová is an architect who has long been concerned with Baťa family housing and the possibilities of its contemporary use; she is a member of the architectural office Ellement, which also operates an info point for Baťa housing in a Baťa single-family house in Zlín.
The book and the eponymous long-term exhibition at the Info Point are the result of the NAKI II project (Industrial City and Its Transformations in the 20th Century: Culture, Identity, and Order of the Urban Industrial Society on the Example of the "Ideal City" of Zlín realized) in collaboration with the National Technical Museum and Masaryk University in Brno.
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During the evening, three of the authors of the book – Barbora Vacková, Klára Eliášová, and Jitka Ressová – will discuss the development of the building typology of these houses, the company's demands on their inhabitants, and the changes that have occurred over nearly a hundred years in the expectations of what constitutes quality housing.
Bára Vacková is a sociologist working at the Faculty of Social Studies at MU, focusing on urban sociology and housing sociology.
Klara Eliasova is an architectural historian and a member of the association PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media, focusing on the architecture of industrial enterprises and factory towns.
Jitka Ressová is an architect who has long been concerned with Baťa family housing and the possibilities of its contemporary use; she is a member of the architectural office Ellement, which also operates an info point for Baťa housing in a Baťa single-family house in Zlín.
The book and the eponymous long-term exhibition at the Info Point are the result of the NAKI II project (Industrial City and Its Transformations in the 20th Century: Culture, Identity, and Order of the Urban Industrial Society on the Example of the "Ideal City" of Zlín realized) in collaboration with the National Technical Museum and Masaryk University in Brno.
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