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We were honored to support the publication of several publications dedicated to architecture and architectural personalities, such as Jean Nouvel, Jaromír Krejcar, Otto Rothmayer, or to write a few words about the monuments of Prague 10 or Osada Baba. The latest supported book is Já, architect: Martin Kotík.

These are interesting publications, check them out:

Baba. Osada Svazu čs. díla Praha 

Author Stephan Templ, translated from German by Jana Tichá

Monograph on a model colony of Baba family houses in Prague-Dejvice. The settlement was created on the initiative of the Association of Czechoslovak Works as an exhibition of contemporary housing in the years 1928-32. The project followed on from similar events that took place in the 1920s elsewhere in Central Europe (Stuttgart, Vienna, Wroclaw, Brno). Leading architects participated in the construction of the settlement, the builders were important personalities of the cultural, social and political life of their time.

Ladislav Žák built a house for Karel Herain, director of the Museum of Applied Arts, Oldřich Starý for designer Ladislav Sutnar or graphic artist Cyril Bouda, Josef Gočár for Charles University professor Julius Glücklich, Josef Fuchs for Prague Fair Director František Munk, etc. The publication includes an introductory study, a catalog of 34 houses , biographies of architects, biographies of builders, bibliographies and indexes.

Jean Nouvel: Být opravdový

Authors Rostislav Švácha and Soňa Ryndová

These are texts from 1984-1998, which were the basis for the exhibition in the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery

Jaromír Krejcar, 1895-1949 / edice Katalogy GJF

Authors Rostislav Švácha, Antonín Tenzer, Klaus Spectenhauser, photographer Jan Malý

Exhibition catalog of an important representative of Czech architectural purism and functionalism. Published in Prague - Jaroslav Fragner Gallery.

Otto Rothmayer 1892 – 1966 / edice Katalogy GJF

Authors Petr Krajčí and Soňa Ryndová

The publication about Otto Rothmayer, who was a pupil and collaborator of the Slovenian Jož Plečnik, is divided into 4 chapters:

1) Pre-flight preparation 1892 - 1921 about childhood and schools,

2) Above the city / Prague Castle 1921 – 1956 about the trio Rothmayer, Plečnik, Janák, about Otto Rothmayer at Prague Castle and the material aspects of creation at the Castle.

3) In seclusion 1945 - 1966

4) What remains - documents, sources, literature with memories and a list of works

Čtení o Praze 10: kapitoly o stavebních památkách Vršovic, Strašnic, Vinohrad, Malešic a Záběhlic

Author Karel Výrut

The publication provides an overview of the most important real estate monuments, buildings of various architectural styles (from original folk architecture to modern) and social purpose (residential buildings, villas, castles, homesteads, schools, churches, technical and public buildings). The texts of the former mayor of Prague 10, Karel Výrut, are intended more for the lay public. They contain brief information about the architectural development and decoration of the buildings, their history, use and personalities associated with them. The appearance of most buildings is captured by historical and contemporary photographs, or plans and sketches.

II. inventura Tomáše Bíma

Author František Dvořák and friends

The monograph presents the work of the painter, graphic artist and illustrator Tomáš Bím. It focuses on his work from the 1980s and 1990s. His work catches everyone's eye at first sight. He is a painter of light and airy colored surfaces of our modern civilization, in front of which he stands only enchanted and does not meditate. This is what made him one of the most legitimate painters of our time.

Já, architekt: Martin Kotík 

Author Kateřina Černá

The book Já, architect charts the life and work of Martin Kotík, who in the eighties of the last century, during his work in the studio of Alf Vladimír and Věra Machoninová, among other things, participated in the project of the department store Kotva and later in Prague's South-West Town in the studio of Ivo Oberstein.

Já, architekt is not a strictly professional publication, but a conversation conducted with ease, which naturally gives the reader the opportunity to understand how architects lived and built in different periods, starting with socialist Czechoslovakia until now. Martin Kotík and his studio Omicron-K have countless important buildings to their credit in the territory of Prague, such as the Slavie stadium. The stories of the Kotík artistic family in the Czech Republic and abroad also take place in the background of the narrative.