Zprávy památkové péče, 2017 (vol. 77), issue 4

Editorial

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Transgas, an important heritage property of postwar architecture

Veronika Vicherková

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):355-360  

The set of buildings at the very threshold of the Vinohrady area in Prague, in the block under the Český Rozhlas (Czech Broadcasting) building, was built in 1966-1976 according to the design of Ivo Loos, Jindřich Malátek, Jiří Eisenreich, and Václav Aulický. It originally served as a control center for the international gas pipeline. Three unusual structures set into an architecturally designed parterre were intended to be the gateway to Vinohrady and to create a transition from the compact built-up area to the open corridor of Wenceslas Square running under the motorway. Even though this intention was not fully implemented, it became an example of...

Debate on heritage care in the 1960's. Ivo Loos, Jindřich Malátek, and Transgas

Rostislav Švácha

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):361-372  

There is a debate among professionals and lay people in the Czech Republic concerning the value of architecture of the 1960's and 1970's which has parallels in other European countries. In Prague there is a special battle raging for the Transgas complex on Vinohradská Street (1967-1976), designed by architects Ivo Loos (1934-2009) and Jindřich Malátek (1931-1990). This article discusses Loos' and Malátek's texts from the 1960's, largely devoted to the practice of heritage care at the time. Both architects, in their journalistic articles, favored a so-called urban concept of protection of historical cities, a doctrine which wanted to incorporate the...

Renovation of the Clementinum by Ladislav Machoň: "From a quiet stand of the Theologians there was built a busy warehouse of modern science"

Martina Koukalová

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):373-386  

When, at the beginning of the 1920's, the possibility of building a new building for the University Library in Prague proved to be unrealistic, art historian Zdeněk Wirth, whose competence in the Ministry of Education included the use of heritage buildings, decided to acquire the entire complex of the Baroque Clementinum and rebuild it. This was based on the rational reasoning that it could not be maintained and repaired without its meaningful use in the conditions of the new Czechoslovak Republic.Adaptation of the Clementinum took place in five stages and lasted more than a quarter century (1923-1951). It was carried out by architect Ladislav...

The recent renovation of the interior paintings of the Convent Church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Želiv

Martin Šanda

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):387-400  

A total reconstruction of the interior and exterior of the Convent Church in Želiv (Pelhřimov district) took place in 2015-2016. The reconstruction also included renovation of the interior painting, which this article primarily focuses on because it was the most problematic part of the otherwise successful reconstruction.The original medieval church was significantly renovated in the Early Baroque period and subsequently, after a fire in 1712, rebuilt according to the design of Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel. The course of construction of the church and its subsequent furnishing is illustrated to us by archive sources which also present two later renovations...

The newly discovered medieval wall paintings in the Kunštát castle

Jan Beránek, Karel Maráz, Radim Štěpán, David Zeman

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):401-416  

One of the stages of the historical and architectural survey focused on the areas of the current third storey of the west wing, whose mass conceals the medieval walls of the fortification castle, revealed hewn stone corner brackets and tapered vault ribs in the present-day room no. 303 at the end of 2015, bearing witness to what was once a glorious Gothic space. Probes were followed by a restoration stratigraphic survey which revealed medieval wall figurative paintings under later layers of plaster. Work began on the overall heritage restoration of the room at the beginning of 2016 and ended with making the paintings accessible to the public in the...

Contemporary borders. The archaeological potential of research on state borders and the borderlands of former Czechoslovakia

Michal Bureš, Michal Rak, Lukáš Funk, Martin Tomášek

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):417-434  

Enthusiastic preparations for the protection of the state border in the later 1930's which ended with the ignominious resignation of the borderlands to the aggressor; the expulsion of the German national population and the subsequent attempt to resettle the borderlands which failed and led to its mass depopulation; the construction of a border surveillance system claimed to be directed against an external enemy but actually directed towards its own population - these are the neuralgic points of contemporary Czech history. Despite these being ultimately unpleasant memories, or perhaps because of it, they tend to be overlooked and forgotten at least...

Sound-generating factors of the instruments of the Brno and Loket organ school. An example of applying new concepts and approaches in organ heritage care

Petr Koukal

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):435-441  

Organ heritage care has long been maintained and evolved in developed countries, evolving as if out of the mainstream of official conservation theory. One of the reasons for this is given by Walter Supper, according to whom this is the most complicated area of all of heritage theory and care. The introductory part of the text therefore provides a look at the development and current situation of organ heritage care, where the greatest emphasis is placed on the documentation, protection, and recovery of the audio part of the organ. As part of this, new concepts are emerging, such as sound heritage and sound-making factors which help to better document...

The Sokolovna as a phenomenon of Gesamtkunstwerk

Ivana Láníková

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):442-450  

Sokolovnas, or Sokol houses, create a separate independent group inside the art history debate. The Sokol ideology, which continues on the achievements of the Czech national resurgence, is reflected in the visual forms of Sokolovnas and in the functionality of these very buildings. Through an analysis of various cultural areas (which indicate efforts representing Czech national pride and identity in the second half of 19th century), the author attempts to find common aspects of how this was used by all types of art. We can understand Gesamtkunstwerk (interconnection and cooperation of all kinds of art) as the direct equivalent of the efforts of this...

Removal of mineral oils from the surface of inorganic materials using aqueous microemulsions

Petr Kotlík, Klára Drábková, Markéta Škrdlantová

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):451-454  

The removal of impurities containing mineral oils from the surface of tiles or plaster is often one of necessary steps taken in the rehabilitation of historic buildings. Oily dirt is not only an aesthetic problem, but it also reduces the possibilities for further surface treatments (paint, penetration, etc.). The water repellent character of these impurities virtually eliminates merely washing it with water. The use of organic solvents alone not only poses a fire hazard but also presents health risks to the implementing personnel and the risk of environmental pollution. Aqueous microemulsions containing a small amount of organic solvents are an effective...

Luděk Štěpán (1932-2017)

Magda Křivanová

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):455-456  

Česká poválečná architektura "pod ochranou a bez"

Petr Vorlík

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):456-462  

Kulturní dům v Mladé Boleslavi - zpráva k památkové ochraně staveb z druhé poloviny 20. století

Šárka Koukalová

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Sídliště Ďáblice usiluje o památkovou ochranu

Hana Řepková

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):465-467  

Cena Klubu Za starou Prahu za novou stavbu v historickém prostředí: třináct ročníků

Rostislav Švácha

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):467-472  

Novodobý padesátiletý archeologický výzkum Vyšehradu

Karel Kibic

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):472-479  

Seznámení s dendrochronologií

Jana Koudelová

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):479-480  

Památky nás baví

Martin Aschenbrenner

Zprávy památkové péče 2017, 77(4):480-481