V+V Machoninovi 60'/70' - invitation to the exhibition
Karlovy Vary Art Gallery
Goethe Trail 6, Karlovy Vary
21/4/2016 — 22/5/2016
The exhibition presents the architectural work of the husband-and-wife team of Věra and Vladimír Machonin from the 1960s and 1970s, showcasing their most significant realizations (e.g., the Thermal hotel, the Kotva department store) through posters, models, original drawings, and furniture.
For the Machonins, the 1960s and 1970s marked a peak period. One of their most famous buildings— the Kotva department store— was designed not as a celebration of the existing society but as an independent and unique structure with a number of architectural innovations. Their other realizations—the Thermal hotel complex in Karlovy Vary, the House of Cultural Living in Prague, and the building of the Czech Embassy in Berlin—were anchored in the European architectural context and followed the tendencies of late modernism. Despite European inspirational influences deviating from the prescribed orientation, the Machonins' brutalist work is distinctive and authentic, featuring a strong and bold handwriting.
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Goethe Trail 6, Karlovy Vary
21/4/2016 — 22/5/2016
The exhibition presents the architectural work of the husband-and-wife team of Věra and Vladimír Machonin from the 1960s and 1970s, showcasing their most significant realizations (e.g., the Thermal hotel, the Kotva department store) through posters, models, original drawings, and furniture.
For the Machonins, the 1960s and 1970s marked a peak period. One of their most famous buildings— the Kotva department store— was designed not as a celebration of the existing society but as an independent and unique structure with a number of architectural innovations. Their other realizations—the Thermal hotel complex in Karlovy Vary, the House of Cultural Living in Prague, and the building of the Czech Embassy in Berlin—were anchored in the European architectural context and followed the tendencies of late modernism. Despite European inspirational influences deviating from the prescribed orientation, the Machonins' brutalist work is distinctive and authentic, featuring a strong and bold handwriting.
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