Josef Polášek, a disciple of Pavel Janák and an early co-worker of Bohuslav Fuchs at the Brno Municipality, is among the most significant avant-garde architects in Brno and Czecho- slovakia. A native of impoverished Moravian Slovakia, Polášek focused in his work on selected types of structures with a social purpose or mission. School buildings and urban residential settlements for the poor built to his design rank alongside the best of Czech, and even European interwar architecture. This monograph is the first to present Polášek's complete work solely in the original photographs and designs, a large part of them being published for the very first time. It also contains an eloquent summary of Polášek's texts written for publication, thus bringing a new and complete picture of this exceptional character in Czech interwar architecture.

© Obecní dům Brno, 2004
Pages: 180
Number of Copies: 1000
Editors: Petr Pelčák, Ivan Wahla