Bohuslav Fuchs
Bohuslav Fuchs, one of the most prominent architects in interwar Czechoslovakia, was born in Všechovice near Bystřice pod Hostýnem on 24 March 1895. After the outbreak of World War I he left for Prague, where he first made a living as a bricklayer, but was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts by architect Jan Kotěra in 1916. He began work in the Architecture and Regulation Department of the Brno Building Authority in 1923 and later, in 1925, replaced Jindřich Kumpošt in the position of the city's chief architect. In 1926-27 he prepared a design for the "Tangenta" competition for urban regulation of the centre of Brno (in cooperation with Josef Peňáz and František Sklenář). He resigned from his position in the late 1920s and set up his own studio. His major functionalist works include the Zeman Café in Brno from 1925-26 and the Avion Hotel (1927). In the 1930s he designed the Masaryk Students' Home in Brno and the Green Frog thermal swimming pool for the Trenčianské Teplice Spa. Fuchs' preference for the organic line of functionalism is reflected in the Petrák villa in Brno. He and other members of his family set up the AKA, a company producing interior accessories and objects of arts, in 1932. The activity of this company as well as Fuchs' studio came to an end in 1948 as a consequence of the Communist takeover. He worked as the dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1948-49, 1951-52 and 1955-58, but was eventually forced to leave. In the 1960s he devoted most of his time to urban planning. In this period he created his designs for Prague's transport system, the completion of Old Town Square in Prague and the surroundings of the National Theatre. He was conferred the title of National Artist in the more liberal atmosphere of 1968. The architect also contributed to International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM), was a member of the International Committee for the Resolution of Problems in Contemporary Architecture (CIRPAC), the honorary chairman of the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHTP), the Hague, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Bohuslav Fuchs passed away on 18 September 1972 in Brno, where he is also buried at the Central Cemetery.
Architect
Bohuslav Fuchs
Date of birth
24.3.1895 Všechovice
Deceased
18.09.1972 Brno
Literature
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