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19: 27: 35: 203: 167: 191: 179: 219: 155: 103:, with decoration taken from folk and nationalist themes, and then subsequently into a purer functionalism. His 1925 Palace Adria is an unusually late example of integrated sculpture. As the chairman of the Czechoslovak Werkbund he drew up the master plan for the 1932 Baba Werkbund Housing Estate, the last of the European housing exhibitions, and also designed 3 of its 32 houses. He was also responsible for the design for the 131:
inspired housing estate located on the outskirts of Prague Pavel Janák created the Master Plan for this community, and was also in charge of selecting the architects that would be involved. Although Baba survived the World Wars, it is now in danger of historical extinction due to recent renovations
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advocating dynamic architectural compositions and destabilizing traditional right-angled buildings, Janák became the leading theoretician of
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Pavel Janák was also associated with the functionalist Baba housing project in Prague, the
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Fostinum: Czech Cubist Architecture -- Photographs of Janák's cubist buildings
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Prague-Holešovice, Czech Republic. Hlávkův most, a relief of Pavel Janák
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in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under
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Pardubice
Karlín
Prague
Dejvice
Otto Wagner
Jan Kotěra
Czech Cubism
Josef Chochol
Josef Gočár
Pelhřimov
Czech Rondocubism
Hussite Church
Vinohrady
Jože Plečnik
Prague Castle
Werkbund
Government of the Czech Republic
Prague 6
Škodův Palace, Prague
Palace Adria, Prague
Palace Adria, Prague
Palace Adria, Prague
Cubist kiosk near Bolzanova Street, Praha 1-Nové Město
Praha 1
Villa Linda (1933-1934)
The Prague Vitruvius
"Baba Housing Estate"

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