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Between Place, Representation and Possibilities: Searching of Urban Location and Architecture of the Czechoslovak Parliament Building
Kober, Jan ; Švácha, Rostislav (advisor) ; Svobodová, Markéta (referee)
Keywords Representation - Building of Parliament - competitions - public debate - Centre of Prague - Czechoslovakia - Central Europe Resume Jan Kober: Between Place, Representation and Possibilities: Searching of Urban Location and Architecture of the Czechoslovak Parliament Building. Thesis, Charles University in Prague, 242 pages. The thesis researches the nearly forgotten story of the efforts to build the new parliament building. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Parliament of the Kingdom of Bohemia left its age-old seat at the Prague Castle for the newly-rebuild seat in the palace of the Prague Lesser Town. At the beginning of the 20th century, Prague became a quickly developing city, but, unlike the European capitals of that time, with few exceptions lacking the new monumental architecture of various public buildings. This led to the idea of the new larger and incomparably more representative parliamentary design (Antonín Balšánek), influenced by the pattern of Paris. The renewal of the independent state in 1918 as well as the rise of the number of deputies immediately led to the requests for the new building of the Parliament and to the emergence of the new projects of Václav Roštlapil, Max Urban, Antonín Balšánek and Bohuslav Fuchs. The political changes enabled also the old vision of the...
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