Pavel Janák

Pavel Janák

Pavel Janák (12 March 1881 - 1 August 1956) was a Czech modernist architect, furniture designer, town planner, professor and theoretician.

Janák studied with Otto Wagner in Vienna between 1906 and 1908, and worked in Prague under Jan Kotěra. In 1911, with the publication of an article "The Prism and The Pyramid" advocating dynamic architectural compositions and destabilizing traditional right-angled building, Janák became the leading theoretician of Czech Cubism. Of the three Czech cubists -- Janák, Josef Chochol and Josef Gočár -- Janák probably built less and theorized more. Still, his 1913 Fara House in Pelhřimov is a key work in that style.

After 1918 Janák and Gočár developed Cubism into Czech Rondocubism, 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.

In 1936 he took over from Jože Plečnik as the supervising architect of Prague Castle.

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Pavel Janak was also associated with the functionalist housing project in Prague known as Baba. Baba, was the "Werkbond" inspired housing estate located on the outskirts of Prague. Pavel Janak not only created the Master Plan for this community, he was also in charge of selecting the architects that would be involved. Although Baba survived the destruction of the World Wars, it is in danger of historical extinction due to renovation of new owners with lack of historical reverence and general neglect.

External links

* [http://www.modernista.cz/english/ma_janak.html English-language biography]


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