Czech modern architecture and the long shadow of Karel Teige

0519185 - ÚDU 2020 RIV LT eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Hnídková, Vendula
Czech modern architecture and the long shadow of Karel Teige.
Modernism for the future. An international conference. Conference proceedings. Kaunas: Kaunas 2022, 2019 - (Petrulis, V.), s. 52-59. ISBN 978-609-96109-0-0.
[Modernism for the future. Kaunas (LT), 12.09.2018-13.09.2018]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378033
Klíčová slova: modern architecture * modern movement * Karel Teige * nationalism * avant-garde
Obor OECD: Architectural design

In the interwar period, the Czechoslovak architecture was shaped in a significant way by a leading critic and theorist Karel Teige. In his radical approach towards Modern Movement Teige intended to eliminate all nationalistic and decorative features from Czech architecture. But in his visions architecture formed only a starting point of a lifestyle reform. Still, the lasting impact of Teige´s ideas casts a long shadow upon Czech historiography and affects a contemporary interpretation of the past. Following Teige´s opinions leads to a celebration of Avant-garde tendencies and a critical blindness towards parallel tendencies in architecture and visual culture that seem to be less glorious and more nationalistic.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0304342