Tag: Brno

Architectural Competition Designs and the Construction of the International Hotels by Stavoprojekt Brno

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 1‒2

The article focuses on the state design organization Stavoprojekt and its involvement in international architectural competitions for hotels in Czechoslovakia mainly in the 1960s. The research draws upon newly discovered archival materials, among them hotel plans for the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary and Prague. Although Stavoprojekt and its branch in Brno are known […]

Brno’s Villa Tugendhat: Eight Decades

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 1 - 2

In March of 2012, after two years of restoration, the renowned Villa Tugendhat was opened once again to visitors. After over eight decades, it is now possible to see the house in the condition that it enjoyed shortly after its construction in 1930. Thanks to recent research findings regarding the wider context of its urban […]

Zdeněk Řihák’s Hotel Buildings and the State Project Institute of Trade Brno

Issue: 2021, Volume 55, No. 1 - 2

The text briefly describes the operation of one of the state planning establishments for hotel construction in Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 1990, placing the architectural work of SPITB employee Zdeněk Řihák within the global context of that time. The Czechoslovak hotel production and the work of Zdeňek Řihák is analysed on for case studies: Hotel […]