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The anonymity of building offices
Petrasová, Taťána
The term „Office Architecture“ that describes public buildings designed or adapted by the General Court Central Office in Vienna, has used as a pejorative notion of building production in the time 1788 - 1853, or 1863. However, in Prague it represents the outstanding Neo-classical buildings (e.g. the demolished Koňská brána/Horse Gate designed by Peter Nobile), too.
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Slavonic Byzantinism: aesthetics or politics?
Petrasová, Taťána
The text is focused on the political context of the church SS Cyril and Method in Karlin (1854-63) by Carl Roesner, today Prague, and it is compared with the cathedrale in Djakovo (1866-1888) that should be originaly designed by Roesner after the Prague church.
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Nazarenism or Purism?
Petrasová, Taťána
The study monitors the influence of contemporary tendencies of Italian Purism on the work of Czech sculptors in Rome: Václav Levý, Emanuel Max and Theodor Wilhelm Achtermann.
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The Josephine Fortresses and the Beginnings of Classicism in Bohemia
Petrasová, Taťána
This article is based on Austrian studies of the re-organisation of the General Planning Directorate in Vienna in 1783 - 1788, and it outlines the options of a further examination of the relationship between the architecture of civil engineers of Czech planning directorates and the engineers of military planning directorates in Terezín and Josefov.
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Aristocratic Biedermeier
Petrasová, Taťána
An example of two buildings designed by architect Heinrich Koch (the Kinský Villa in Smíchov, 1822-1824, the Kostelec nad Orlicí chateau, 1828-1833) points at innovations to Classicist architecture after Biedermeier gained recognition among noble customers.
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