Monday, 22 May 2023

Follow this link for photos of all house museums in the tour program! 

Day 1 -  Icons of Czech Avantgarde: Authenticity & Style Diversity

8:30am      CHECK-IN National Library of Technology, Balling Hall

9:00am      Welcome by Natascha Drabbe, Co-Chair IHC2023

                   Executive Director & Founder Iconic Houses Network

9:10am      Welcome by Maria Szadkowska, Co-Chair IHC2023

                   Curator Villa Müller and Head of CPMA, Prague City Museum  

9:15am      Welcome by Iveta Černá, Co-Chair IHC2023

                  Head of Villa Tugendhat, Brno City Museum

9:20am      Moderator Petr Klíma introduces keynote speaker 

9:30am Keynote Address: Professor Ing. arch. Vladimír Šlapeta DrSc., Hon. FAIA

Lecture Outline - Family Houses for the Middle Class: One of the Crucial Tasks of Czech Functionalist Architecture

In his keynote address professor Šlapeta will outline the context in which the vernacular and innovative modernist residential architecture of the Czech Republic arose in the 20th century. Czech modern architecture, from the turn of 19th and 20th century led by Jan Kotěra, Wagner´s student, quickly moved towards its own autonomous expression, reflecting both the domestic historic traditions and simultaneously the world architectural tendencies. This resulted, shortly before the First World War, under the supervision of Josef Gočár and Pavel Janák, into Czech Cubism which immediately attracted international attention. After the foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918, Cubism was followed by poetism and purism of the incoming generation which, in the interwar era, culminated in an extensive production of the functionalism era, representing a broad palette of stylistic nuances from rationalism, science-founded concepts, through the reflections of Le Corbusier, Bauhaus and the Dutch Modernism, to the aerodynamic and organic tendency. The “driving force” of this phenomenon was the clientele from the higher middle class. Their houses, summer residences, and weekend homes are, to this day, a symbol of this great epoch of our modern history. These houses, although less known in the international context, are also a remarkable pendant to Villa Tugendhat and Villa Müller. 

About Prof. Vladimír Šlapeta

Vladimír Šlapeta is Professor at Brno University of Technology and the Czech Technical University in Prague. Born and grown in Olomouc, he studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After a short practice in architectural office in Ostrava, he worked from 1973-91 as head of architecture department of the National Museum of Technology in Prague. After the Velvet Revolution he became Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague (1991-97 and 2003-06) and then of the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology (2006-10) and was a visiting professor at TU Tallinn, MSA Münster, University of Ljubljana, UFGRS in Porto Alegre and TU Krakow.

10:10am     Q&A

10:15am     BREAK 

10:45am Iconic Shorts (8 Czech Modern House Museums, presented in 6:40’ presentations)

- Jurkovič House: Rostislav Koryčánek, former Curator Jurkovič House and Jurkovič expert   
- Villa Čerych: Ladislav Jackson, Art and Architectural Historian.
- Villa Müller: Maria Szadkowska, Curator and Head of CPMA, The Prague City Museum
- Adolf Loos Apartment & Gallery: Vladimír Lekeš, Director
- Villa Rothmayer: Petr Krajči, Architect and Curator

- Museum of Tower Blocks in Kladno: Roman Hájek, Curator  
- One-family house: Eduard Stehlík, Director Lidice Gallery        

- Le Bateau Ivre in Saint-Marcellin, architect Louis Babinet with a large ceramic fresco by Vera Székély, France: Adam Štěch, independent art theoretician, writer and curator                                                       

12:00          SHORT BREAK  

12:15pm     Board buses to tour house museums

12:30pm     Buses depart 
Boxed lunches served on bus

 

Afternoon House Tours 12:30-6:30pm

- One Family House, František Marek, Václav Hilský, Richard Podzemný and Antonín Tenzer, Lidice, early 1950s

- Museum of Tower Blocks in Kladno, Josef Havlíček, Kladno, 1956

- Villa Müller, Adolf Loos, Prague, 1930    

- Villa Rothmayer, Otto Rothmayer, Prague, 1929

 

6:30pm        Opening Reception at the Mayor's Residence

- Shuttle service to the hotel

Dinner by individual arrangement

 

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