Product Description: This monograph documents, for the first time, the work of the Liberec Association of Engineers and Architects--known as SIAL--founded in 1968 by the Czech architects Karel Hubacek, Miroslav Masák and Otakar Binar. Joined by other prominent modernist architects in Prague, the group was active into the 1980s...read more

Product Description: This volume presents a selection of buildings that illustrate and celebrate the architectural evolution and trend of the Visegrad Group-the alliance of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland-from 1990 to 2008. Eighteen examples from each country are examined across the eighteen years that have passed since the dissolution of the Soviet Union...read more

Product Description: "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time." -- from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900--1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: foreword by Kenneth Framptonessay by Eric DluhoschPrague is a one of Europe's oldest and most beautiful cities. Originally published in Czech in 1985, this seminal work focuses on the architecture of Prague from the turn of the century to the end of the Second World War: a rich matrix within which to place the figures who created the powerful, innovative spirit of modern Czech architecture...read more