Festvortrag Theodor-Fischer-Preis 2024 // Vendula Hnídková , Prag: Housing for a New Social Order: Czechoslovak Urban Visions between Humankind and Social Segregation

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After WWI, Central Europe needed to respond to the new political landscape in numerous respects. The first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk, was a true believer in social progress, represented by people devoted to their work that was to transform into a lifelong mission. In 1920, the Masaryk´s Academy of Works was founded in his name, an institution that was dedicated to scientific research. Some of its members were promoters of garden city ideas who regularly participated in the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning. With an up-to-date theoretical background, several housing developments were launched based on the visions of the garden city movement.
The massive garden suburbs programs supported by the state in the 1920s-1930s dramatically reshaped the built environment and had a lasting impact on notions of Czech national identity by creating new idealized forms of middle-class domesticity. Yet after the Great Depression, some of the urban planners radicalized, and urban planning shifted fundamentally from picturesque utopias to belief in ultimate technocratic solutions.
In my talk, I will question what the garden cities tell us about the art historiography in general and the architectural historians´ disciplinary positions in particular. How is historical evidence organized in different narratives, and toward what ends?

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt // The event will be held in English.
Die Veranstaltung wird parallel via Zoom übertragen, den Link finden Sie hier: https://www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2024/vortrag-vendula-hnidkova