Zprávy památkové péče, 2015 (vol. 75), issue 4

Editorial

Matyáš Kracík

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):297  

Heritage protection of prefabricated housing estates?

Matyáš Kracík

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):299-306  

In the Czech Republic, there are currently only a few housing estates from the second half of the 20th century that are heritage protected. These are the estates Poruba in Ostrava, estate Vítězného února in Kladno, an estate in Havířov, and the estates of Labská kotlina 1 in Hradec Králové. The first three were built in the 1950's in socialist realism style. The Labská kotlina estate is from the late 1940's and ties into inter-war functionalism. All these estates were built using traditional brick technology. Based on several years of extensive interdisciplinary research on prefabricated housing estates, we would like to show that even these housing...

Post-war apartment construction and heritage preservation using the example of Great Britain and Scandinavia

Eva Novotná

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):307-312  

Following WWII, Scandinavia and Great Britain focused strongly on building a welfare state with a great emphasis on the construction of municipal or cooperative apartments and housing estates. Together, they applied the general concept of affordable and modern housing built on the principles of industrialized construction, the use of precast concrete, and standardized architecture. The greatest expansion was reached with mass construction in the 1960s, when England and Scandinavia built vast housing estates with panel houses and huge tower blocks. Since the 1990's, England has begun to apply heritage protection to the housing estates of the 1940-1960's,...

The issue of heritage preservation for prefabricated housing estates using the example of Ďáblice

Hana Řepková

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):313-321  

The residential complex of Ďáblice from the 1970's epitomizes the fulfillment of nearly all of the ideals of modernity that were ever associated with this kind of construction. The Ďáblice housing estate bears important attributes of the 1960's and 70's while extending beyond the normal production of the time. Even today, the qualities that set this housing estate apart can be found in the quality and comprehensibility of its urban design and its rigorous compliance, the exceptional quality of the architectural design of its residential buildings and the quality of their realization including details and atypical elements, the accessibility and quality...

Residential Complex Lesná. The thorny path of a panel housing estate towards heritage protection

Jana Kořínková

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):322-330  

This article is focused on the presentation of the group of artworks located within the Lesná housing estate, on previous attempts at protecting the heritage of this unique collection of urban art including its artistic realization, and on the role of local civic initiatives in this effort. Within the Brno housing estate of Lesná (1962-1970), built on the design of the Brno Stavoprojekt architects František Zounek, Viktor Rudiš, Ladislav Volák, and Miroslav Dufek, there are nearly thirty artistic realizations located in public spaces and ten works in the interiors of public buildings. In 2004, architect Rudiš submitted a proposal for the declaration...

Artistic decoration of housing estates in Czechoslovakia during the 1960-80's

Pavel Karous

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):331-342  

This article is an overview of artworks in public spaces placed there as part of housing estate construction from the 1960's to the 1980's. The first part of the article deals with the role of art in public space and presents two examples of systems from abroad - in France and in Chicago - where the placement of works of art as part of public construction were dealt with conceptually through a series of laws. These examples serve for comparison with the "four percent law" which applied in Czechoslovakia from the 1960's, earmarking a mandatory amount for the construction of works of art. The paper also addresses the issue of the censorship of art in...

Systematic approaches to housing estate areas and their relationship to the original concept of constructional development

Michal Kohout, Filip Tittl

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):343-349  

The article mainly addresses the fundamental questions of the spatial design of housing estates and their semantic consequences in relation to possible future interventions, and is also a summary of two research projects conducted at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University since 2009. This is both a morphological and compositional analysis of selected structures of Prague housing estates, conducted by the authors together with Master's degree students, as well as a currently ongoing multiannual research project entitled "What's next with housing estates" (Sídliště, jak dál?), which examines the transformative models of housing...

Old cities, housing estates, and the daily press, 1960-1989

Rostislav Švácha

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):350-356  

The article examines how the daily newspapers of the cities of Kutná Hora (Úder), Olomouc (Stráž lidu), and Liberce (Vpřed) during the period from 1960 to 1989 reflected a collision of two ambitious and ultimately unfulfilled programs of the socialist state: the regeneration of historic towns and solving housing problems through the tools of industrialized construction. The paper draws attention to the obvious fact that there existed a mutual bond between the two programs which had a negative impact on the regeneration program. Newspapers from the 1960's and especially the 1980's depicted this situation quite realistically.

Prefab housing estates caught between attitudes of adoration and revulsion

Karel Kuča

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):357-364  

The essay summarizes the main themes and issues related to the heritage protection of housing estates. The introduction recalls the historical preconditions of the formation of housing estates - attempts to find a new urban structure associated with the demolition of traditional city blocks had already been carried out in the 1920's. Several significant "pre-housing estate" realizations are mentioned here from the interwar period (e.g. Zlín, brněnský Tábor), the war period (Osada in Horní Litvínov), and in the immediate post-war period (housing estate Solidarita).The next part focuses on massive housing and estate construction projects after 1948....

The Palace of Culture in Prague, its history, architecture, art, and heritage potential 35 years after its construction

Matyáš Kracík, Hedvika Křížová, Anna Schránilová

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):365-377  

The Palace of Culture in Prague was completed at the end of 1980 and ceremonially opened on 2 April 1981. Its authors were the architects of the Military Project Institute Jaroslav Mayer, Vladimír Ustohal, Antonín Vaněk and Josef Karlík. The building became one of the most pompous buildings of this period, including its rich artistic decoration numbering up to two hundred works of art. On 31 May 1982, the Department of Culture of the National Committee of Prague declared the Palace of Culture to be a cultural monument. This status lasted until 1991, when its owner requested the cancellation of its declaration as a cultural monument. After more than...

Initiatives for the preservation of the historical character of Litomyšl before the First World War

Anna Šubrtová

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):378-384  

From the beginning of the 20th century, the small East Bohemian town of Litomyšl faced insensitive construction works in its historic areas which brought about an increasingly strong need to protect its historic environment and ancient character. Neither the scale nor the overall architectural design of the ostentatious new buildings, which had caused the demolition of historically and artistically valuable architectural monuments, corresponded to the architectural rhythm of the small town, thus necessitating the formation of heritage preservation associations.The first to seize this initiative in Litomyšl was the local professor Karel Polesný,...

Výsledky druhého ročníku Ceny Národního památkového ústavu Patrimonium pro futuro za rok 2014

Jana Tichá

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):385-388  

50 let od založení ICOMOS

Josef Štulc

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):388-392  

Výzkumný projekt a mezinárodní konference "Sídliště, jak dál?"

Filip Tittl, Jana Kubánková

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):392  

Tři knihy o sídlištích

Hana Řepková

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):392-394  

Kniha o sídlišti Solidarita

Václav Kokeš

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):394-395  

Monolith Controversies - sídliště exotická a přesto blízká

Václav Kokeš

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):395-396  

Metodika Digitální a digitalizovaná fotografie

Pavel Scheufler

Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):396