Werkbund Baba estate You're out coordinates houses architects model 3D contacts Oldřich Starý designed a house with a studio and an adjoining room for etching works for the painter and graphic artist Cyril Bouda. He connected the two-level studio with the living space by using a sliding wall and, in addition, he also connected it with the garden using a progressive outdoor staircase. 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 Na Ostrohu 46, No. 1712 Cyril Bouda’s House Architect: Oldřich Starý Builders: Václav and František Kavalír the Bouda House now, 2020 the Bouda House, original state (south façade) Owner Cyril Bouda In 1930, Cyril Bouda (1901-1984) married Eva Šimonová, the daughter of T. F. Šimon, for whom the painter worked as an assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During the 1930s, Cyril Bouda won a number of prestigious awards both at home and abroad, e.g. the national Schmidt Prize for Graphics, an honourable mention at an international competition in New York, or the Grand Prix for book art at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1937, and later recognition as a national artist. The Bouda family is still living in the house to this day.