Name Victor Furth | ||
Died 1984, Oxford, Ohio, United States | ||
Victor Furth, German: Viktor Furth, Victor Furth, Czech: Viktor Furth (February 16, 1893, Horaschdowitz (Czech: Horazdovice, Kingdom of Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire – August 23, 1984), was a Czechoslovakian architect working in Prague until 1939.
Life
His firm did the design for the Te-Ta department Store in Prague. This 7-story building can be seen at Jungmannova Street 747/28 110 00 Praha-Nove Mesto (Czech Republic). It was renovated in 1997 at which time underground parking was added and an apartment wing was included in the rear. The reinforced concrete building contains a parterre which allows passage between Jungmannova Street and the Franciscan Garden.
Between 1928 and 1930 he and Ernst Muhlstein (1893, Prague ? –1968, Melbourne) designed the Villa Schuck in Prague. He also joined with Ernst Muhlstein in the design of the large apartment complex in Prague called Molochov on Milady Horakove 74 (street address) in the years 1936-1938.
When the Adolf Hitler regime came to power in Czechoslovakia, he had to leave and fled to the United States through Great Britain. In Oxford, Ohio Victor Furth joined the faculty at Miami University as a Professor of Architecture. Among his designs were the Bern Street Apartments having large bedrooms and hardwood floors and numerous houses for Miami faculty often employing a cathedral ceiling. He died on 23 August 1984 in Oxford, Ohio. Throughout his teaching career Furth was denied tenure and instead had been on an annually renewed contract; however in September 2006 he was posthumously granted the title of Professor Emeritus by Miami University.