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Arch. Vladimír Karfík
Unikátní fotografické album / Unique photo album
Very rare !!
39 original contemporary photographs of functionalist buildings, designs and models by Arch. Vladimir Karfík
album size 30 x 39 cm
Original photos of the functionalist department stores fy Baťa designed by architect Karfík in Liberec, Bratislava, Teplice, Amsterdam and Brno, as well as the design of the functionalist Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Bratislava, photos of skyscrapers in New York...
/*1901 +1996 /
He studied at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague /1919-1924/, with the support of the Masaryk Academy of Work, he completed an internship with Le Corbusier in Paris in 1925–1926 and an internship with Frank Lloyd Wright in his Taliesin studio in 1928–1929. In the years 1930–1946, he was the head of the design department of the Baťa company in Zlín. He belonged to prominent figures in the field of Czech and Slovak modern avant-garde architecture of the 20th century.
condition: traces of pasted photos on album boards, inside well preserved
Price on request
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