Two houses by architect Josef Místecký in Valašské Meziříčí: Transfer of the ideas of modern architecture outside the centres
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
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| Description | This paper discusses two houses of the architect Místecký. He was Kotěra's pupil, and apart from being an architect, he was a professor at the State´s Vocational School of Wood Carving in Valašské Meziříčí, where he lived. Within ten years, he realised two entirely different houses for himself and his family. Both houses represent diverse approaches to modern architecture and illustrate the transmission of these ideas. The first house was built in 1926-7 and represents a traditional yet modern villa that showed the architect as a member of the small city intelligentsia and a pupil of Kotěra. The second house was designed and built in 1936 and is quite different. It is a white avant-garde box built outside the city, proving that the architect is still oriented towards current architectural tendencies. It is a different statement about building a private world outside of society. This stylistic shift of one architect illustrates changes in interwar architecture and society in general. |
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