Printed Architecture: Hubert Guzik
27th episode of the lecture series Printed Architecture at the Jablonec bookstore Serius will present on Friday, May 22, 2015, at 6:30 PM architectural historian Hubert Guzik, who will introduce his book Four Paths to Koldom as part of a free lecture series on housing. The book maps collective housing in the Czech lands and in Czechoslovakia during the period of 1900–1989. The author views Koldoms as an architectural, political-ideological, sociological, and cultural phenomenon.
The book is divided into four chapters:
The first deals with the period 1900-1918, when the topic was mainly discussed by sociologists (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Innocenc Arnošt Bláha) and representatives of the Czech women's movement.
The second maps the concept of collective housing as formulated by theorist Karel Teige and his architect colleagues at the end of the 1920s. Thanks to Teige, contemporary domestic designs of Koldoms are in no way inferior to foreign ones.
The third chapter presents two realizations built after World War II: Koldoms in Litvínov and Zlín are among the highest quality examples of this residential type in the European context. Based on archival research, the author demonstrates that both Koldoms had little in common with Stalinist communism, and their concept was developed during the war by the management of the Baťa company.
The final chapter describes the phenomenon of so-called hotel-type houses, which briefly gained ground in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. It also analyzes the reasons why collective housing found itself on the periphery of interest for architects and urban planners in the following decades and which elements of state socialism ultimately determined the failure of Koldoms.
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The book is divided into four chapters:
The first deals with the period 1900-1918, when the topic was mainly discussed by sociologists (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Innocenc Arnošt Bláha) and representatives of the Czech women's movement.
The second maps the concept of collective housing as formulated by theorist Karel Teige and his architect colleagues at the end of the 1920s. Thanks to Teige, contemporary domestic designs of Koldoms are in no way inferior to foreign ones.
The third chapter presents two realizations built after World War II: Koldoms in Litvínov and Zlín are among the highest quality examples of this residential type in the European context. Based on archival research, the author demonstrates that both Koldoms had little in common with Stalinist communism, and their concept was developed during the war by the management of the Baťa company.
The final chapter describes the phenomenon of so-called hotel-type houses, which briefly gained ground in Czechoslovakia at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. It also analyzes the reasons why collective housing found itself on the periphery of interest for architects and urban planners in the following decades and which elements of state socialism ultimately determined the failure of Koldoms.
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