<Václav Aulický will celebrate his eightieth birthday>

Prague - The name of architect Václav Aulický, who will celebrate his eightieth birthday on March 1, has recently appeared in the media mainly in connection with the demolished Transgas building complex in the center of Prague, of which he is a co-author. However, Aulický's most famous work is the television tower in Prague's Žižkov district. His other realizations include the completion of high-rise buildings in the Pankrác Plain in Prague or the telephone exchange building in Prague-Dejvice. His buildings exhibit postmodern elements.

A representative of so-called hi-tech architecture, Aulický graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. His first significant project he was involved in was the construction of the Transit Gas Pipeline complex in Prague's Vinohrady. In 1974, he moved to the company Spojprojekt Praha, where he was responsible for building the television transmitter in Ostrava-Hošťálkovice and telephone exchanges in Prague's Dejvice and Hradec Králové.

In the late 1970s, Aulický was entrusted with the project for a television transmitter for Prague. The striking building, evoking a rocket prepared for launch, rose in Mahlerovy sady between 1985 and 1992. In addition to Aulický, structural engineer Jiří Kozák also significantly contributed to the technical solution of the 216-meter-high tower made of steel and concrete. Aulický even wrote a book about his probably most significant work titled Žižkovská věž, in which he discusses, among other things, the obstacles and controversies that accompanied the construction of the transmitter.

The Transgas buildings on Vinohradská Street in Prague were named after the eponymous gas pipeline. The complex of three buildings built between 1972 and 1978 in the brutalist style served as the Central Control Center for the gas pipeline as well as the federal Ministry of Fuels and Energy. It also combined other architectural styles, such as early postmodernism or so-called hi-tech. This brutalism legend, which the people of Prague and the authorities wanted to save, was demolished in the middle of 2020.

Later, Aulický, a Prague native, participated in the designs of various commercial and residential buildings. He is also credited with the design of the Czech Insurance Company complex in Prague's Pankrác, the administrative center in Karlín, or another Prague building, Diamond Point in Těšnov. Since 2005, Aulický has been lecturing at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University, where he also habilitated as an associate professor.