Architecture and Czech politics in the 19th - 21st centuries
Status: completed
Project duration: 2018 - 2022
Funded by: Ministry of culture Czech Republic
Main researcher: doc. Cyril Říha, PhD.
Project summary:
The project explored the dynamic interactions between Czech architecture and politics and, through exhibitions and publications, presented to a wide audience the political significance that architectural aesthetics acquired in the 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries in Bohemia.
What were the results of this project?
The project showed how architecture contributed to the formation of national and cultural, or regional and local identity, how it served to express loyalties and demonstrate the unity of the state, or how it expressed opposition positions, how it represented the political differentiation of society and how it contributed to it, how it served to maintain or eliminate social inequality.
The output of the project were four exhibitions held in the UM Gallery at the UMPRUM, as well as a larger exhibition summarizing the results of the research, held in an institution outside Prague, ideally abroad (Architekturzentrum Wien, Muzej za arhitekturo in oblikovanja Ljubljana, Muzeum Architektury Wroclaw). All were accompanied by extensive monographic publications.
