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The swimming pool as an architectural task. Open-air swimming pools in Czech architecture of the 1920s-1940s
Turjanicová, Andrea ; Švácha, Rostislav (referee) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (advisor)
If the Low exists in the architecture then buildings for water sports seem to stand for a category frankly Deep. Neither for the main stream, nor perhaps for the industrial architecture which occupies considerable interest in recent years. At the same time, open-air swimming pools from the twenties and thirties worth the attention, either in light of the architecture or considering circumstances far more general. Distinctly it is reflected by the district of Prague 's Barrandov. Modern architecture, film, culture of coffee lounges and sport that helped to create an atmosphere of the interwar era were present in the new garden-city. In altered, diversely misshapen form these phenomena kept the importance also in following years of the occupation and the war. It concerns the architecture of old swimming pools, thus the buildings planned to be operated three of four months in a year, mostly low and wooden. This architecture, slightly ephemeral, did not receive even the right name. It could be complemented with a diving tower, a slipway or perhaps a pavilion across. And certainly it was belonged with the water. Good swimming pools were projected almost as a landscape garden and their architectonic solutions were close to the landscape design. Also for this, the attention is focused to opein-air swimming pools...
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