SUMMARY In April 1993, Vladimír Karfík from the designing studio of Baťa’s company flies with the company airline to Prague and from there to Paris, and from Bretagne to New York by ship. He has to fulfil an important task. During his previous journey to the US, Jan Baťa decided to build American Zlín on […]
SUMMARY Chemical plant Dynamit Nobel were founded in Bratislava as late as 1873. After 1945, after the renewal of destroyed parts, they started with preparation of construction of a new plant. Director of that time Ing. Ríša, who was a previous director in Baťa’s factory in Batizovce, asked V. Karfík to design it. He started […]
SUMMARY In 1935 in the journal l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, there were published several articles on architecture. One of the articles is “Pictoresque Journey around Central Europe”. Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and mainly Zlín. “Rational and highly functional architecture” surprises. Zlín is a specific example, it is a holistic concept of new industrial town. This relates to […]
SUMMARY The paper deals with reconstruction of the paradigm of Karfík’s contemplation on architecture, which he called “opinion world” or “comprehension of architecture”. In reconstruction, he comes from the published monographs, textbooks, journals, debates and his own memories. The author wants to prove that the essence of paradigm of Karfík’s contemplation of architecture is formed […]
SUMMARY Out of five Czech architects that took the professorship at the SVŠT in Bratislava at the same time and with the same motivation – after the World War II and Belluš’s invitation – V. Karfík as the only one lacked pedagogical experience and did not come from Prague. His uniqueness was in the extent […]
SUMMARY The problem of that need of man that lies in self-identification becomes pressing for each man. Man found himself in integration and globalization processes that navigate us to reformulate his feeling of citizenship, either as the Centraleuropeans or as the citizens more and more connected to the world. If we consider in this context […]
SUMMARY The author tackles the phenomenon of “Architecture of Zlín”, which became a remarkable phenomenon not only of the Czech-Slovak but also of the world interwar period architecture. In the period of developing funcionalism, in the period of rise of several outstanding architectural works that mostly were the solo architectonic monuments, the architecture of Zlín […]
SUMMARY The author describes a situation when a respected architect and university professor Vladimír Karfík involuntarily left the Faculty of Architecture in Bratislava and began working in an urbanistic studio of a state project organisation with some of his students spanning several generations as one of them. In those ten years that he worked there, […]
SUMMARY Among interesting inclinations of the architect Karfík, beside whole range of architectonical types which he thought out and projected, we may undoubtedly count high rising buildings. Skyscrapers were in the first decades of the 20th century reflected as real architectonical phenomena, which were perceived differently in Europe as opposed to America, the country of […]