Cottages and Shelters of the Czechoslovak Tourists Club (1918–1938)
Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze (historická budova), Prague
A lecture based on rich archival photographic material will present new and older structures (including those no longer in existence) that the Czechoslovak Tourists Club (KČST) built during the First Republic across Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Slovakia, and Subcarpathian Ruthenia. Attention will be given to both well-known and lesser-known architects and builders.
The Technical (Construction) Commission of the KČST, founded in 1919, played a special role in organizing, regulating, and partially financing the construction of tourist cottages and shelters. The lecture will also place the emergence of these structures within a broader historical context.
Lecturer:
Mgr. Markéta Svobodová, Ph.D., Department of Art History and Topography, Institute of Art History, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v. v. i.