<p>Sixty years ago, Jaromír Krejcar passed away</p>

London/Prague - At the age of 54, one of the most talented Czech architects of the interwar avant-garde, Jaromír Krejcar, passed away on October 5, 1949. A significant representative of functionalism and constructivism, he died in London, where he emigrated after February 1948 and also lectured.
    Krejcar was a student of Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, after which he worked for three years in the studio of another prominent architect, Josef Gočár, and then became independent. His early works were influenced by Le Corbusier's purism and Russian constructivism. Later, he was also influenced by the poeticization of the metropolis, and he liked to use elastic and aerodynamic shapes inspired by transatlantic liners. He was a proponent of noble architectural composition and unusual structural and spatial solutions.
    Among his most significant buildings are the Czechoslovak pavilion for the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques in Modern Life held in Paris in 1937, the Olympic Palace in Prague's Spálená Street, which currently houses Studio Ypsilon, the first projects of the villa for Vladislav Vančura in Zbraslav, the villa of Richard Gibián in Prague-Bubench, and the spa house Machnáč in Trenčianské Teplice. Jaromír Krejcar was also involved in urbanism, interior design, furniture design, and was known as an indefatigable organizer and publicist.
    Krejcar was the second husband of journalist Milena Jesenská, with whom he had a daughter, Jana.