PT Journal
AU Koukalova, M
TI Ladislav Machon and the Faculty of Law building of Charles university : "Artistic construction manager with an advisory voice"Ladislav Machon und der Bau des Gebaudes der Juristischen Fakultat der Karls-Universitat in Prag-ltstadt : "Der artistische Bauverwalter mit der Konsultativstimme"
SO Staleta Praha
PY 2021
BP 86
EP 113
VL 37
IS 1
DI 10.56112/sp.2021.1.02
WP https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202101-0002.php
DE Prague - Old Town - Faculty of Law - Charles University - Ministry of Public Works - Ministry of Education and National Awareness - First Republic architecture - Neoclassicism - state contract - attribution of a work of art - authorship - Ladislav Machon - Jan Kotera
SN 02316056
AB After the early death of the architect Prof. Jan Kotera in 1923, the architectural community perceived the construction of university buildings designed by him on the bridgehead of Cech Bridge in Prague Old Town as a kind of monument, partly also due to a numerous complications that Kotera had to go through during the long design process. When the Ministry of Public Works commissioned the architect Ladislav Machon to carry out the construction, the difficulties continued: the project documentation, which he had to perform as much as possible, was not complete; he was under the responsibility of three ministries, which tried to create representative buildings of the new state and significantly save the cost at the same time, and he faced pressure from the law faculty itself. Machon took on a complicated and responsible task: to carry out the inherited work as accurately as possible, while at the same time putting back his own architectural feelings.
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