Geometric and Organic in A&A 20th Century

Otto Wagner Vienna Strassenbahn Sparkasse

Jan Kotěra Student of Otto Wagner Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright Museum at Hradec Kralove – 1st structure in Europe in which the ideas of F.L.Wright were applied, 1908-12 Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright Student of Otto Wagner

Urbanek (a music publisher) House Jungmannova Street Jan Kotěra Urbanek (a music publisher) House Jungmannova Street

Czech Cubism Main problem: facade Gočár, House at the Black Madonna, 1911 Main problem: facade Vyšehrad Tenament House, 1912

Czech Cubism Kovarovic Villa, Vysehrad, 1912

Czech Cubism - Sources Late gothic church, 15th c. Janák, Proposal of a monumental interior, 1912

Czech Cubism - Sources

Analytic and Synthetic Cubism Picasso, Woman Playing a Guitar, 1910/11 Picasso, Souvenir du Havre, 1912

Cuboexpressionism Otakar Kubín/ Othon Coubine

First Republic 1918-1938 Urbanistic boom Tomáš Garrique Masaryk simple, logical and purposeful shapes of modern buildings Functionalism – also the problem of interior space

Functionalism: Mies Villa Tugendhat, Brno, 1929-1930

Adolf Loos „Ornament as a Crime“ Villa Müller, 1928-30 Raumplan

Gočár St Wenceslas Church, Prague Vršovice

Zlín Functionalism Individual house 1923-39; 37 000 inhabitants Baťa Single company town : Fordist and functionalist industrial city The first skyscraper in Czechoslovakia, 17 stories Factory on one end and extensive residential areas with two-storey single-family detached houses with yards „work collectively, live individually“

Teige Disliked the luxury of Mies villas Work collectively, live collectively Minimal house Collectivist architecture

Surrealism: Teige, Toyen

Surrealism: Štýrský, Toyen

Surrealism: Štýrský