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Fórum architektury - 1/2001 summary

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	Place in Karlín Each of the 19th-century districts of Prague has its own distinctive quality, as all these districts grew up as separate towns with their own town councils and infrastructure, their own town halls, schools, churches, social centres and so on. Karlín was founded as an imperial town in 1817, but grew slowly and only officially became a town in 1903, although it had been the local administrative centre since the middle of the 19th century. It was incorporated into Prague in 1922. Karlín was built on a gridiron pattern with relatively large blocks and its backbone was the straightened main road out of the city towards the east (Sokolovská Street). This street divided the district into two parts: one bordering the river and the other lying under the Žižkov hill. The centre of the district was its square with the neo-Romanesque church built in the mid-19th century. To the east, below the hill leading up to Žižkov and the railway line running along its foot, engineering industries began to develop at the end of the 19th century. The foremost of these was the Českomoravská Kolben-Daněk (previously Breitfeld-Daněk and later ČKD Dukla), which was built as a complex of workshops set among residential buildings, and to which an office block in Thámova Street was added in the 1930s. Pavel Halík The Corso Karlín - A Word from the Architect - Ricardo Bofill Technical Report about Corso Karlín - Jiří Grosz Conversions - Benjamin Fragner New Karlín - Jiří Koukolík The Pernerova (Street) Project
topics
	The Significance of the Roof in Modern Architecture - A Roof Can Have Many Meanings A utilitarian meaning. A formal and utilitarian meaning. A formal and real meaning. A real meaning. Another meaning? The roof of a house has always been seen as a protection against bad weather... and this is still how we see it today. It is basic to people’s physiological needs and customs, basic to a comfortable life. How is the roof seen in modern architecture? Petr Ulrich In Praise of Historical Roofs - Miloš Solař Roof Construction at the Turn of the Century - František Kulhánek Compact Roof Composition - Jan Vychytil The Roof of the Corpus Christi Chapel in Kutná Hora - Marek Novotný The Roof - Karel Doležel
history
	Frank Lloyd Wright and the Living City This is a topic from the history of architecture which gained new relevance at the beginning of this year. It bridges the view of 20th century architecture which has until now been obscured by stereotypes and prejudices. Frank Lloyd Wright and Czech Architects While Wright’s work had an influence on architecture in the Czech Lands from the moment that Jan Kotěra published photographs of the Oak Park Studio in the magazine Volné směry in 1900, this fact has rarely attracted attention here. The new edition of the study “Frank Lloyd Wright and Czech Architecture” is an important contribution on this topic. Vladimír Šlapeta Jaroslav J. Polívka - An Engineer of Organic Structures Vlaďka Valchářová
review
	reviews / Vanished Hradčany and Malá Strana - Karel Kibic Modern Architecture in France - Petr Urlich debate / The Continuing Regional Debate on Regionalism - Petr Halík exhibitions / Between All Walls - Bohuslav Blažek Changes in the Code - Jaroslava Severová conference / Tracing Central European Identity - Bohumil Fanta nostalgia / El Lissitzky - Oldřich Ševčík Anniversaries in 2001 - Jiří Hrůza