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František Janda

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Nationality
  
Czechoslovakian

Occupation
  
Architect

František Janda

Born
  
10 September 1886 (
1886-09-10
)
Běrunice, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)

Died
  
2 March 1956, Prague, Czech Republic

Alma mater
  
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague

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František Janda (10 September 1886 – 2 March 1956) was a Czech architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs. Janda studied under the tutelage of Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Along with pianist and composer Václav Štěpán he founded the Arts Forum, for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's Malá Strana district. For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building. In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the communist government. Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death. His most famous building is probably the functionalist Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937).

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Works

  • Winter spa in Poděbrady (1912)
  • 30-room art nouveau guest house at Rieger's Square, Poděbrady spa (1912)
  • Regulation plans for the cities of Mladá Boleslav and Poděbrady (1912) and the spa village Brestovičky
  • Mladá Boleslav courthouse
  • Building societies in Mnichovo Hradiště, Holice, Bakov nad Jizerou, Nová Paka and Mnichovo Hradiště
  • Arts Forum in Prague (1925)
  • (with Č. Vořech) Theatre Na Prádle, Prague-Malá Strana (1924–26)
  • District Union building in Nové Strašecí (1928–1930)
  • Water towers in Kolín (1930; Janda replaced Jan Vladimír Hráský, author of the original 1928 project), Podebrady, Jaroměř, Bělá pod Bezdězem and Pečky
  • Merkur restaurant and cafe in Jablonec nad Nisou (1930)
  • Office buildings, including erstwhile municipal HQ, in Sušice (1925–1932)
  • Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937)
  • References

    František Janda Wikipedia