Institute for improvement of trades (Ústav pro zvelebování živností) (1930)

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#School #České Budějovice #1930

Architects

Josef Kubín, Jindřich Lášek

Developers

Českobudějovická obchodní a živnostenská komora (Chamber of Commerce and Trade in České Budějovice)

Address and directions

Husova 1846/9
370 01 České Budějovice, Czechia

Public transport: U Zelené ratolesti

Today's use: School

The city's most modern school of the 1930s

Description

As an extension to the older Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the windows of the classrooms along the street are designed differently, but they fit in with the rhythm. The most significant facade design is the staircase with its vertical and horizontal ribbon windows, forming a little tower. With references to well-known schools of modernism, such as the Dutch De Stijl or the German Bauhaus, the two Prague architects are oriented towards international trends.

A building for the same purpose was built in Hradec Králové some years earlier. What is striking while comparing the two buildings, is how much the styles differ and how the architecture has been reduced to its essentials within four years.

Description

As an extension to the older Chamber of Commerce and Trade, the windows of the classrooms along the street are designed differently, but they fit in with the rhythm. The most significant facade design is the staircase with its vertical and horizontal ribbon windows, forming a little tower. With references to well-known schools of modernism, such as the Dutch De Stijl or the German Bauhaus, the two Prague architects are oriented towards international trends.

A building for the same purpose was built in Hradec Králové some years earlier. What is striking while comparing the two buildings, is how much the styles differ and how the architecture has been reduced to its essentials within four years.

History

The Chamber of Commerce and Trade had this building added to the older building between 1930 and 1931. This house was created as  a school from the beginning.

History

The Chamber of Commerce and Trade had this building added to the older building between 1930 and 1931. This house was created as  a school from the beginning.

Sources

  • Schinko: Putování městem České Budějovice, Vol. 2, 2019

Sources

  • Schinko: Putování městem České Budějovice, Vol. 2, 2019
Facades
plaster ceramics
Windows
casement fixed ribbon corner
Roof
flat
Details
tower
Position
along a street centre of a city/town/village
Storeys
3

Impressions

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