The Liberec Region will buy the house of architect Hubáček, the council decided today
Liberec - The Liberec Region will purchase the house of Liberec architect Karel Hubáček, the creator of the hotel and transmitter on Ještěd, for 12 million crowns. The purchase was unanimously approved today by the regional council. The house, built as a prototype in the early 1960s, was offered to the region by the architect's sons and will be taken over by the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec, said Governor Martin Půta (Mayors for the Liberec Region). The house is set for renovation, and a memorial dedicated to the architect will be established within it.
Karel Hubáček would have celebrated his hundredth birthday next February. He studied architecture in Prague, but his professional career is largely associated with Liberec, where he joined the then Stavoprojekt. In the late 1960s, he was among the founders of SIAL, which during the normalization period was able to respond to modern European trends and fostered many personalities in Czech architecture. He is credited with numerous buildings. For the Ještěd project, Hubáček received the prestigious Perret Award from the International Union of Architects in 1969 and is currently the only Czech architect to be honored in this way.
For the house with a built-up area of 86 square meters and 1,460 square meters of garden in the lucrative district of Liberec's Lidové sady, as well as part of the furnishings and estate, the Liberec Region will pay 12 million crowns, which, according to the appraisal, is slightly below the market value of the house with the land. The most interesting parts of the interior are planned to be sensitively restored to the state in which the architect created and lived with his family. Part of the house and the garden will be used for changing exhibitions, while the garden around the house will allow for smaller cultural events to be held from spring to autumn.
"It's a panel house 3+1 built as a family house, so we cannot expect that hundreds of people would be visiting, the house couldn't withstand that," added the governor in response to opposition councilor Jitka Volfová (ANO), who was interested in how the house will be opened to the public. The regime in which the house will be open to visitors will be decided by an advisory board composed of representatives from the museum, the family, the region, and experts from the Liberec Faculty of Architecture, according to the governor. The house currently does not have heritage protection, but the region plans to apply for it as the owner in the future.
According to Jiří Křížek, director of the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec, Hubáček's prefabricated house in the area of individual housing is one of the most interesting realizations from the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. The project was meant to demonstrate a cheap, accessible, and quality house for the broadest layers of the population and to prove that it could be created even with minimal resources. However, it remained only at this prototype, into which he moved after the exhibition ended. "He lived in it with his family for the rest of his life from 1962," Křížek said in response to a query from ČTK.
Karel Hubáček would have celebrated his hundredth birthday next February. He studied architecture in Prague, but his professional career is largely associated with Liberec, where he joined the then Stavoprojekt. In the late 1960s, he was among the founders of SIAL, which during the normalization period was able to respond to modern European trends and fostered many personalities in Czech architecture. He is credited with numerous buildings. For the Ještěd project, Hubáček received the prestigious Perret Award from the International Union of Architects in 1969 and is currently the only Czech architect to be honored in this way.
For the house with a built-up area of 86 square meters and 1,460 square meters of garden in the lucrative district of Liberec's Lidové sady, as well as part of the furnishings and estate, the Liberec Region will pay 12 million crowns, which, according to the appraisal, is slightly below the market value of the house with the land. The most interesting parts of the interior are planned to be sensitively restored to the state in which the architect created and lived with his family. Part of the house and the garden will be used for changing exhibitions, while the garden around the house will allow for smaller cultural events to be held from spring to autumn.
"It's a panel house 3+1 built as a family house, so we cannot expect that hundreds of people would be visiting, the house couldn't withstand that," added the governor in response to opposition councilor Jitka Volfová (ANO), who was interested in how the house will be opened to the public. The regime in which the house will be open to visitors will be decided by an advisory board composed of representatives from the museum, the family, the region, and experts from the Liberec Faculty of Architecture, according to the governor. The house currently does not have heritage protection, but the region plans to apply for it as the owner in the future.
According to Jiří Křížek, director of the North Bohemian Museum in Liberec, Hubáček's prefabricated house in the area of individual housing is one of the most interesting realizations from the turn of the 1950s and 1960s. The project was meant to demonstrate a cheap, accessible, and quality house for the broadest layers of the population and to prove that it could be created even with minimal resources. However, it remained only at this prototype, into which he moved after the exhibition ended. "He lived in it with his family for the rest of his life from 1962," Křížek said in response to a query from ČTK.
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