Part of exhibition Famufest, Prague, Czech Republic, 23.11-27.11.2016
Czech Cubism
Prague is a sort of “museum of architecture under the open sky”. The largest urban historical center listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Prague’s architecture is spellbinding. Many architectural gems from the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque era remain intact because the city was not rebuilt like most European capital cities during the 18th or 19th centuries, when it was only a provincial town in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also, Prague was spared the tragic fate of cities such as Dresden during World War II. Around 1910, a unique form of cubism appeared in Czech architecture with crystalline and round derivations of geometric shapes. Czech architects were the only ones in the world who used cubist forms to architecture. Cubism can be to be treated differently. This style makes people feelings totally different - from delight to complete rejection, but the Czechs themselves incredibly proud. But however it may, one can not but admit that the Czech Cubism - a short but unique phenomenon that has no analogues in the world architecture.