SUMMARY The paper is based on the parallel reading of the first Vladimír Karfík’s diary (1916) and his last family house (1968-72, Brno, Czech Republic). The first Karfík’s diary trancribes summer holiday memories, fantasies and ideas of fourteen years old college student mostly interested in piano playing, foreign languages, literature, drawing, photography and field trips. […]

SUMMARY The functionalist inter-war architecture in Zlín was always linked with the company Baťa and its requirements, closely related to the developing town. The unrealised pieces of architecture in Zlín, designed by outstanding Czech architects like František Lydie Gahura, Vladimír Karfík, Miroslav Lorenc, Jozef Gočár, Jan Víšek, Otto Rothmayer, Josef Havlíček, Bohuslav Fuchs, Jiří Voženílek, […]

SUMMARY Vladimír Karfík designed and built villas of high standard for Baťa’s top managers. These 4 villas, designed during a war, are different in their architectural form. If we compare their disposition, we can see that they are in principle nearly the same. The construction of each of the villas took more than 2 years […]