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Pretext of the Fictional Setting of the novel Sedmikostelí in Prague's New Town
Hrazdírová, Eliška ; Kudlová, Klára (advisor) ; Charypar, Michal (referee)
This thesis aims to analyse the possible forms of the relationship between historical architecture and urban concepts and literary fiction. As a concrete subject for this analysis it chooses the genre of the Gothic novel and its very concrete case, the novel Sedmikostelí (1999) by the Czech writer Miloš Urban. In the individual explanatory and interpretive chapters, he puts two unique ideological concepts in relation to each other. The first is the concept of the New Town of Prague in the thought of its founder, Charles IV. The second is the literary mirroring of this concept and its inspirational role for the fictional New Town in Urban's novel Sedmikostelí and for the central idea of the work, which is the utopian escape from the everyday into the Gothic period with its aesthetic and social ideals and rules. This escape is to enable the re-presentation in the work of the vanished Chapel of Corpus Christi, which in the minds of the novel's characters represents the centre of the space of the so-called Sedmikostelí. This work introduces the history and architecture of the New Town and the symbolic dimension of the urban concept in the thought of Charles IV and reveals step by step the relationship between this concept and the individual buildings, characters, and the ideological basis of Urban's...
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Baťa Department Stores in Prague
Dorňáková, Adéla ; Biegel, Richard (advisor) ; Lahoda, Vojtěch (referee)
Baťa department stores are very numerous collection of building coming from the twenties and the thirties of the twentieth century and in many towns They represented the first apperance in modern architecture into historical centres. This study was reduced to eight buidings which were created in Prague. On one hand there are well- known department stores on Wenceslas Square or in Celetná street, on the other hand there are almost unknown buildings whose original function was forgotten. Research of primary sources and literature has allowed detailed presentation of particular buildings, their architectural history and changes which the department store had to undergo. Detailed descriptions have been used for reciprocal comparison and their inclusion into overall production of Baťa departments stores. At the same time the choice of Prague has permitted comparison with other department stores. Key words Department store, Baťa, Prague, Baťa architecture, architecture of the 20th centrury, functionalism, Old Town of Prague, New Town of Prague, Vysočany, Nusle, Libeň, Vršovice, Žižkov, Letná
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