Open House Prague: The festival will commemorate famous architects
Plečnik is an architect who is appropriated not only by Slovenes but also by Czechs. While in the Czech Republic his works were completed after various vicissitudes and changes, some of his visions for the Slovenian capital were not fulfilled. A lecture with the curator of Plečnik’s permanent exhibition in Ljubljana, Ana Poroková, and the architect Vladimír Šlapeta, is also prepared for the exhibition. It will be on Thursday at 6:30 pm at the Faculty of Law, Charles University.
This year, the festival organizers also pay attention to personalities Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann, who is a representative of the so-called Czech Neo-Renaissance and whose birth in April passed 200 years. Those interested can find the family Villa Lanna in Bubeneč, which was established as a summer holiday home for the industrial businessman and patron Vojtěch Lanna Jr. It will be accessible Novoměstská sokolovna in Žitná streetthe former Higher Girls’ School in Vodičkova Street or Ullmann’s last Prague realization, the building of the Czech Polytechnic on Charles Square, where the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague is located today.
It passed in March 140 years since the birth of architect Pavel Janáktherefore, the program includes buildings from various periods of his life, such as the Club House of the Autoclub of the Czech Republic, the functionalist Hotel Juliš on Wenceslas Square, the Adria Palace in the so-called national style or the constructivist building of the Vinohrady Hus Choir with an unmissable bell tower.
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The Open House Prague program offers a total of 26 novelties, which are joining the festival for the very first time. People can visit often unusually accessible buildings in remote parts of Prague, such as Zbraslav, Modřany or Komořany. Among them is the recently completed Prague 12 City Hall, the premises of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute in the Komořany chateau and its surroundings, or the newly renovated Klubovna Zbraslav community center on the site of a former laundry by architects from the Projektil studio. The festival program is on the website.
Church of the Sacred Heart of the Lord on George of Podebrady Square.
Author: Flash: Robert Klejch