PT Journal
AU Koukalova, M
TI Architect Augusta Mullerova (1906-1984)
SO Staleta Praha
PY 2024
BP 92
EP 148
VL 39
IS 1
DI 10.56112/sp.2023.1.04
WP https://staletapraha.cz/en/artkey/pha-202301-0004.php
DE Prague; Czechoslovakia; Augusta Mullerova; female architects; university studies; CTU; women?s emancipation; women?s organizations; functionalism; socialist realism; medical buildings; hospitals; exhibition industry; exhibition For new architecture; collective housing; left-wing avant-garde; Left Front; USSR; second Czechoslovak resistance; post-war reconstruction of Czechoslovakia; health care reform; 1948; political process; Regional National Committee; Council of Czechoslovak Women; Union of Czechoslovak Architects; Stavoprojekt; Prague Project Institute; Ladislav Machon; Milada Petrikova-Pavlikova; Jaromir Krejcar; Karel Teige; Bohuslav Albert; Zdenek Wirth
SN 02316056
AB Augusta Mullerova was one of the first Czech architects, at a time when women only rarely completed university studies in the technical field. The following text outlines the circumstances with which young adepts of architecture had to cope in the first half of the 20th century. Further on, it maps the topics for which the left-leaning Mullerova was involved in public life from a young age: it was mainly the position of women in society and health care reform. When, after long years of economic crisis and war conflict, she was able to start implementing her hitherto mostly theoretical projects, she became persona non grata due to the political process of her husband, Ladislav Machon. Nevertheless, she never gave up architectural work, which she diligently devoted herself to in the 1960s, when the younger generation of architects was already dominating.
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