Werkbund Baba estate You're out coordinates houses architects model 3D Oldřich Starý designed a minimalist house with a studio on the south side situated on stilts commissioned by the great Czech graphic artist and designer Ladislav Sutnar, his wife Františka and their two sons. The studio, which spread over one and a half floors, was equipped with a gallery accessible by a ship’s ladder and later expanded. The Sala Terrena formed by the stilts was glassed in as a sunroom in the early 1960s. contacts Oldřich Starý (*1884 Prague +1971 Prague) A pioneer of Czech functionalism, architect, theoretician, and teacher; he is one of the most prominent figures in Czech modern architecture of the interwar period, with its principles of “new architecture,” purity, truthfulness of form, and the belief that architecture is not an art but a “scientifically-based cultural task.” He soon became a harsh critic of excessive façade decoration. Bearing in mind Le Corbusier’s view of the house as a “machine for living,” he designed four houses in Baba (Heřman, Bouda, Vaváček, and Sutnar). He is the author of the palace building on Národní třída in Prague, which he designed for the Czechoslovak Werkbund in 1936, and he was also the Werkbund’s president from 1935. He also presided over the Architects’ Club and was the editor of the functionalist “Stavba” Magazine. He was a professor and later the rector of CTU in Prague. 1903-1909 studied architecture with Professors Josef Schulz and Jan Evangelista Koula at CTU in Prague 1912-1919 professor at the State Technical School in Pilsen 1913 founding member of the Architects’ Club 1920-1945 professor at the State Technical School in Prague 1920-1948 President of the Architects’ Club 1922-1939 editor-in-chief of the “Stavba” Magazine 1939-1971 editor-in-chief of the “Architektura” Magazine 1945-1970 professor of architecture at CTU in Prague 1948 Rector of CTU Significant Works 1928 house at the Exhibition of Contemporary Culture in Czechoslovakia, Brno 1929-1932 villas in Prague-Dejvice 1934-36 1932 houses of Iška and Ladislav Sutnar, František Heřman, Cyril Bouda and Karla and Gustav Vaváček, Baba, Prague-Dejvice 1934-1936 House of Art Industry on Národní třída in Prague (in cooperation with František Zelenka) 1935 villa in Prague-Braník Průhledová 2, No. 1790 The House of Ladislav and Iška Sutnar Architect: Oldřich Starý Builder: The MOK Company the Sutnar House now, 2020 the Sutnar House (south façade) Owner Ladislav Sutnar Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976), as one the leading figures of the Czechoslovak Werkbund, worked as the chief architect on all of its domestic and foreign exhibitions. As the author of top functionalist typographic works, he undertook the unique visual concept of the Baba estate model exhibition in 1932. He designed the logo, two large advertising banners and letterheads and he authored the exhibition catalogue. He collaborated closely with the architects of the Czechoslovak Werkbund and, in 1939, providence led him to stay in New York, where he was commissioned to implement the Czechoslovak exposition at the World’s Fair. He successfully continued his career at the Sutnar Office. After the war, his family left to join him.