The German House of Artists, designed by Heinrich Carl Ried, was built on the Brno ring road in 1911. This historicist building suffered serious damage in World War II and had to be reconstructed in 1946; the reconstruction was managed by Bohuslav Fuchs. He decided to cleanse the facade by removing the decorations and replacing the originally round entrance risalit with a cubic shape in order to approximate the building to the esthetics of functionalist architecture. The building was reconstructed according to a design by Petr Hrůša in 2009.
The Reconstruction of the Brno House of Arts
Name
The Reconstruction of the Brno House of Arts
Date
1946
Architect
Bohuslav Fuchs
Trail
Centre 1918–1945
Code
C114
Type
Refurbishment, adjustment
Address
Malinovského náměstí 652/2,
(Město Brno), Brno, Střed
Public transport
Malinovského náměstí (TRAM 1, 10)
Malinovského náměstí (TRAM 2, 4)
Malinovského náměstí (BUS 67)
Koliště (BUS 82)
GPS
49°11'46.820"N, 16°36'52.719"E
Literature
Iloš Crhonek,
Architekt Bohuslav Fuchs. Celoživotní dílo,
Brno 1995
