Zprávy památkové péče 2022, 82(3):371-384 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2022.2.14

The end of the Art Nouveau dream. Residential construction in Brno-Husovice in 1919-1925

Pavla Cenková, Aleš Homola

NPÚ, ÚOP v Brně

The article depicts the building of residential construction zones in the Brno district of Husovice in the 1920s as a laboratory sample of the processes of formation of modern society which are reflected in the form of building shells of its living spaces. Czech Husovice, which achieved city status in 1912, programmatically declared its rise with a group of representative public buildings in the Art Nouveau style which were also complemented by distinctive Art Nouveau residential buildings. In the inter-war period, this horizon was rather unremarkably followed by streets of mostly architecturally bland terraced houses, with the exception of a few notable buildings of expressive modernist expression. The bulk of First Republic construction activity in the first half of the 1920s was concentrated in the Husovice/Černá Pole border area and was associated with the building enterprises of the building cooperatives. Probably the most important was the construction enterprise of the General Beneficial Building and Housing Cooperative for Husovice and its surroundings, which built a separate quarter of houses known as the Štefánik quarter in the northwestern corner of the Husovice cadaster. The study also focuses on other important building units and important contextual backgrounds of the interwar construction of Husovice.

Keywords: interwar architecture; Brno; 1920s; residential construction; Brno-Husovice; Husovice

Published: September 1, 2022  Show citation