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In 1918 the newly founded state of Czechoslovakia closely linked its political ideology to architecture. This can be well observed in Czechia's architecture. Everything connected to the Habsburg monarchy until 1918 was defined obsolete. The new international style was put in place to image architecturally the democratic state system. Jan Kotěra, who trained many important architects at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie výtvarných umění) is considered to be the founder of modern architecture in Czechia. The architecture of Prague is not only characterised by the international style, but also by many other styles. The Prague architects highly influenced architectural developments in Czechoslovakia, including today's Slovakia and Western Ukraine. The city of Brno was an exception. The city planning office strongly supported schemes of the international style and tried to avoid Prague trends. This was especially enforced with the Brno head architect Bohuslav Fuchs since 1925 and the Brno University of Technology (Vysoké učení technické v Brně).