Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020

František Troníček, Co-Creator of the Prague City : Modern Builder and Modernist Architect
FrantišekTroníček, Mitschöpfer der Prager City : Ein moderner Baumeister und Architekt der Moderne

Patrik Líbal

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 2-25 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.01  

The article is dedicated to the builder František Troníček (1876-1948), born in the village of Sázava at the confluence of the Sázava and Vltava rivers, today part of Davle township. He graduated from the Vocational School of Civil Engineering at the Higher State Industrial School in Prague and later obtained the engineer title. At first he worked in his native regions by Vltava and Sázava rivers, but the most important work he realised in Prague. In 1897 he joined V. Nekvasil's company, where he worked in high positions until 1937. At the same time, however, he ran his own company, which built residential and other buildings throughout the first half...

Half a Century of the Maintenance of St. Wenceslas Monument on Wenceslas Square

Marie Foltýnová

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 26-44 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.02  

Caring for historical monuments is challenging for every administrator. In the case of St. Wenceslas Monument on Wenceslas Square, which is not only a national cultural monument, but also an important state-forming symbol, this is doubly true. Appropriate care, maintenance and restoration method ought to derive from the assessment of all the influences causing destructive processes on the surface and inside the sculpture itself or on the architecture of the granite pedestal. In 2018, after previous comprehensive surveys, the GHMP completed the restoration of the granite pedestal of the monument. Apart from not very frequent earlier maintenance the...

Prague Power Engineering of the Late 19th to the First Half of the 20th Century : What is left of it in Prague

Jiří Chmelenský

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 45-67 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.03  

The dynamic building development of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, has resulted in the past and today in rapid disappearing of historic industrial buildings, potentially the most endangered category of monuments. This also includes monuments of historical power engineering. The article primarily sums up an overview of important Prague power stations and other power plants and draws attention to their heritage values. Secondarily the issue of power engineering monuments is outlined regarding the substance of power stations - their electrotechnical devices. The descriptive part is concluded by appeal to higher awareness of the values of today's...

New Findings on the Baroque Capuchin Christmas Crib in the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Hradčany : Capuchin Priest Oliver Steigerle as an Active Artist
Neue Erkenntnisse zur barocken Kapuzinerkrippe in der Kirche Maria Königin der Engel in Prag-Hradschin : Der Kapuzinerpriester Oliver Steigerle als Bildkünstler

Alice Bartůšková

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 68-77 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.04  

The unique Baroque Christmas crib of the Prague Capuchins in the Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Hradčany has not yet been studied in detail. It is a assemblage of life-size figures made mainly of papier mâché, wood and laminated textiles. The question of the authorship of the figures has long remained unanswered, and doubts in this regard have also been raised by obvious analogies to the Neapolitan tradition of Nativity scenes and the disunity of the assemblage. From this point of view, newly researched archival materials provided new findings to the author, the Capuchin priest Oliver Steigerle (1741-1790), and on the time of origin and the location...

Authentic Windows as a Valuable Part of Early Modern Architectural Monuments
Die authentischen Fenster als wertvoller Bestandteil der Architekturdenkmäler aus den Anfängen der modernen Architektur

Dorota Havlíková

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 78-95 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.05  

The article highlights the importance of preserving the original window panes in buildings of Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Modernism and Cubism styles and captures the window design in three buildings by well-known architects of the early decades of the 20th century. Appearance, profiles and colours of these facade elements on selected originals are presented. The impetus for the need to document these windows is the advancing trend of legitimate replacement of the original historic windows with so-called copies. The windows of three buildings in Prague from the period around the First World War are discussed in greater detail: windows of common period...

Addition to Early Gothic Architectural Fund in Prague
Beitrag zum Bestand der frühgotischen Architektur in Prag

Miroslav Kovář

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 96-99 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.06  

Two early Gothic fragments were discovered in the Old Town of Prague during an archaeological excavation. Fragments built into a post medieval wall broaden the evidence of building activity in Prague (probably) during the second half of the 13th century. The vicinity of the central Prague area - the Old Town Square - indicates the origins from St. Nicholas' Church or the townhouse U věže, belonging to the mighty Velflovic family.

Panel estates and the development of their colour on the example of housing estates in Prague 6 and 8 : Petřiny, Invalidovna, Červený Vrch, Ďáblice, Kobylisy, Bohnice, Čimice

Hana Řepková

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 100-137 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.07  

The text deals with the development of the colour of modernist panel housing estates from primary grey to the current colour intemperance. The 1960's and 70's form, hidden under the layers of insulation, is pointed out on examples of good and bad practice from the author's work sphere, and potential conceptual solutions are presented. The importance of documenting the disappearing features as well as relatively late buildings and estates is emphasized. The housing estate of Bohnice is the most represented in the illustrations, since it has become a laboratory investigating the effect of various approaches to the façade colour, followed by the Petřiny...

Někteří pražští židovští architekti dvacátých a třicátých let 20. století a jejich doložené i možné stavby

Jan E. Svoboda

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 138-158 | DOI: 10.56112/sp.2020.1.08  

Aktuality

Staletá Praha 36, 1/2020, 159-180  

Hotel Intercontinental v Praze; Transgas. Areál řídicí ústředny Tranzitního plynovodu a budova FMPE v Praze

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