Interwar Architecture of Ostrava - Invitation to a Guided Tour
On Thursday, July 18, and Friday, July 19, 2019, guided tours of the exhibition "New Architecture between Centers and Peripheries" focused on first-republic architecture in the region will be held. The tour will be conducted by architectural historian and exhibition curator Martin Strakoš. The tours will begin at 1:00 PM in the exhibition space of the Ostrava branch of the National Heritage Institute at Odboje 1, Ostrava. The exhibition will run until the end of the summer. For this occasion, a model of the House of Art in Ostrava has been specially created. The atmosphere is enhanced by period advertisements.
In the years of the First Czechoslovak Republic, there were tendencies for the region on the border of Moravia and Silesia to culturally emancipate. This was also evident in the construction of buildings for cultural purposes. The most significant example became the House of Art in Moravská Ostrava. In the competition for the exhibition pavilion, architects František Fiala and Vladimír Wallenfels, students of Jan Kotěra, succeeded. In their puristically clean realization, they not only paid tribute to their teacher but also expressed their admiration for modern Dutch architecture and its brick rational line. The model of the House of Art was made specifically for this exhibition.
New architecture also established itself in printed or audio media. A selection of period advertisements in the introductory part of our exhibition forms the basis for black-and-white panels with photographs of the buildings. These panels presented the exhibition "For New Architecture," held at the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts from May to August 1940, to the readers. In the oppressive atmosphere of the protectorate, the theme of new architecture left no one in doubt that it was related to the defense of modernity, closely linked to the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
The exhibition presents the most notable works of that time in the field of sacral buildings, town halls, administrative palaces, residential construction, cultural, sports, and school buildings, urbanism, and industrial architecture through period photographs and several models, under the perspective of the development of individual architectural types in the region.
The presentation focuses on buildings from Moravská Ostrava, Slezská Ostrava, Opava, Krnov, Nový Jičín, as well as from the newly formed town of Český Těšín. The aim is to present quality architectural works from the region, many of which remain outside broader awareness.
The exhibition highlights the successes and values of the local architectural culture of that time and does not hide its limits.
In the years of the First Czechoslovak Republic, there were tendencies for the region on the border of Moravia and Silesia to culturally emancipate. This was also evident in the construction of buildings for cultural purposes. The most significant example became the House of Art in Moravská Ostrava. In the competition for the exhibition pavilion, architects František Fiala and Vladimír Wallenfels, students of Jan Kotěra, succeeded. In their puristically clean realization, they not only paid tribute to their teacher but also expressed their admiration for modern Dutch architecture and its brick rational line. The model of the House of Art was made specifically for this exhibition.
New architecture also established itself in printed or audio media. A selection of period advertisements in the introductory part of our exhibition forms the basis for black-and-white panels with photographs of the buildings. These panels presented the exhibition "For New Architecture," held at the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts from May to August 1940, to the readers. In the oppressive atmosphere of the protectorate, the theme of new architecture left no one in doubt that it was related to the defense of modernity, closely linked to the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
The exhibition presents the most notable works of that time in the field of sacral buildings, town halls, administrative palaces, residential construction, cultural, sports, and school buildings, urbanism, and industrial architecture through period photographs and several models, under the perspective of the development of individual architectural types in the region.
The presentation focuses on buildings from Moravská Ostrava, Slezská Ostrava, Opava, Krnov, Nový Jičín, as well as from the newly formed town of Český Těšín. The aim is to present quality architectural works from the region, many of which remain outside broader awareness.
The exhibition highlights the successes and values of the local architectural culture of that time and does not hide its limits.
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