architecture and urban studies(38)

Praha secesní

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Prague underwent a radical transformation, once again becoming a prestigious center for the l...

Materializing Identities in Socialist and Post-Socialist Cities

This volume deals with the materialization of identity in urban space. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national...

Praha univerzitní

Prague has been a center of university education for almost seven centuries. It was on April 7, 1348, that Charles IV, King of Bohemia an...

Prague: University Town

Prague has been a centre of university education for almost seven centuries. It was 7 April 1348 when Charles IV, king of Bohemia and fut...

Renaissance Prague

At the end of the fifteenth century, when the Jagiellons and, later, the first Habsburg rulers sat on the Bohemian throne, the visual sty...

Making the Most of Tomorrow

Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When ...

A Laboratory of Socialist Modernity in Czechoslovakia

Praha středověká

Prague, which began its development together with the Czech state during the reign of the first Přemyslid rulers at the end of the 9th ce...

Art Nouveau Prague

At the turn of the 20th century, Prague underwent a fundamental transformation: once again, it became a prestigious centre for the life o...

Myšlení hranice / hranice myšlení

A philosopher should have the courage to remain on the border between different disciplines and become a mediator between them, but to st...

K životnímu jubileu Miroslava Petříčka

Karolinum

Karolinum – the focal point of Charles University, where all its faculties, teaching and research departments symbolically converge. The ...

Půda a její hodnota

Land as a space is something that can be owned, one of the factors of production and a natural resource. The amount of land is fixed and ...

Teorie a praxe

Město v bouři

This book presents the urbanistic and architectonic fates of the historical center of Prague during period when it changed from a picture...

Urbanismus a architektura historického centra Prahy 1830–1970