Česká architektura v mezičase

The theme of Karolina Jirkalová's book is the interrelations, overlaps and conflicts between Czech architecture, politics and society at the end of state socialism and in the first years after the Velvet Revolution. It deals with the transformation of the roles and power positions of individual actors in the public debate and the construction process - architects, the state (authorities and legislation), investors and users, and last but not least the contractor sphere and their ties, networks and coalitions. Although 1989 is undoubtedly a significant turning point, the continuities between the eras it separates are at least as strong as the discontinuities in the field of architecture, urbanism, construction reality and housing policy, although they may have different dynamics. Even historical discontinuities often have a common content, just opposite signs. The work attempts to capture and interpret a specific "in-between time" of the transition of Czech architecture, which can be situated approximately in the years 1986-1994.

Czech edition