Modern Architecture
- Duration: 3 hours
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Prague could be used as a textbook of architecture from Romanesque to Postmodern.
Thanks to its cultural development and economic prosperity in the early 20th century you can find here many successful realisations of modernist architecture.
There are many beautiful examples of Art Nouveau like The Municipal House, Palace Lucerna or Palace Koruna, but also more unique buildings like the ‘House At the Black Madonna', a ground-breaking Cubist building by architect Josef Gočár inspired by the works of Picasso and Braque, and the same architect's rondo-cubist Legiobanka.
We will visit the grand café in the Art Deco Hotel Imperial with its lavish ceramic decoration.
Functionalism is often overlooked in Prague; however, there are several outstanding examples of this style which best reflect the massive changes to the society which came with modernity.
Many of them are in Wenceslas Square, which is one big showcase of modernist architecture; retail places like Bata Department Store by Ludvík Kysela and company headquarters like Palace U Stýblů.
However, we will also visit places a bit further from the very centre like the Brutalist 'New Stage' of the National Theatre by Karel Práger, The Dancing House by Frank Gehry, and the Trade Palace by Oldřich Tyl which is now the home of the National Gallery.
- Duration: 3 hours
- Total Price:
Prague could be used as a textbook of architecture from Romanesque to Postmodern.
Thanks to its cultural development and economic prosperity in the early 20th century you can find here many successful realisations of modernist architecture.
There are many beautiful examples of Art Nouveau like The Municipal House, Palace Lucerna or Palace Koruna, but also more unique buildings like the ‘House At the Black Madonna', a ground-breaking Cubist building by architect Josef Gočár inspired by the works of Picasso and Braque, and the same architect's rondo-cubist Legiobanka.
We will visit the grand café in the Art Deco Hotel Imperial with its lavish ceramic decoration.
Functionalism is often overlooked in Prague; however, there are several outstanding examples of this style which best reflect the massive changes to the society which came with modernity.
Many of them are in Wenceslas Square, which is one big showcase of modernist architecture; retail places like Bata Department Store by Ludvík Kysela and company headquarters like Palace U Stýblů.
However, we will also visit places a bit further from the very centre like the Brutalist 'New Stage' of the National Theatre by Karel Práger, The Dancing House by Frank Gehry, and the Trade Palace by Oldřich Tyl which is now the home of the National Gallery.
