70 years ago, architect Oldřich Tyl passed away

Prague - The prominent Czech architect, urban planner, and architectural theorist Oldřich Tyl, who died at the untimely age of fifty after a long illness on April 4, 1939, in Prague, is best known as the co-author of the Prague Exhibition Palace. The building, regarded as the first significant realization of Functionalist style in Europe, was designed in collaboration with Josef Fuchs. His last major work was the commercial and residential building with the passage of the Black Rose in Prague on Příkopy.
Tyl was one of the most significant Czech Functionalists of the 1920s. He was a pioneer of new constructivist tendencies, based on the use of reinforced concrete, steel, and glass constructions, which he mastered perfectly from a technical standpoint. He also introduced large spatial layout solutions. His technically avant-garde buildings, despite their austerity, had a significant artistic quality and resemble classicist compositions. He was also a founding member and, from 1920, the chairman of the Architects' Club, the chairman of the Club for a New Prague, and a co-founder of the magazine Construction.