Czech architecture
Antonín Haffenecker, another architect who went from Baroque to Classicism (Estates Theatre), is associated with Pacassi and Johann Bernhard Fischer.
In the entire Austrian Empire, i.e. in the Czech lands, there were no suitable conditions for the equally successful development of classical architecture as in France or Russia.
Her son, Emperor Joseph II, initiated the so-called Josephine reforms, during which hundreds of churches and monasteries were abolished throughout the Empire, entire orders were dissolved, and the abandoned buildings were transformed into offices, public hospitals or barracks.
In Austria the bourgeoisie developed slowly, which was not strong enough to push through the changes and put an end to feudalism because it feared the atrocities that took place in revolutionary France.
The most important Czech architects of this period are Antonín Balšánek, Osvald Polívka, Josef Fanta, Jan Letzel, Alfons Mucha.
Three-dimensional objects created many views with unusual angles.Cubism directly or indirectly influenced the development of new artistic styles (futurism, constructivism, and expressionism).
The highest buildings in the world of Rondocubism are considered to be Legiobanka by Josef Gočár and Adria Palace by Pavel Janák in Prague.
The Adria Palace, built in 1925 by Pavel Janák and German architect Josef Zasch from Prague, on Jungmann Square for the Italian insurance company Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà.
In 1926, during a conference in Prague, when the French architect Le Corbusier saw the Adria Palace, he called it "a massive structure with an Assyrian appearance".
Functionalist Villa Tugendhat is one of the most famous examples of Czech architecture of the 20th century and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Another important foreign architect working in Czechoslovakia was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, author of Villa Tugendhat.
Other important buildings in the Brussels style are the Z pavilion in the exhibition center in Brno, the swimming pool in Podolí and the railway station in Havířov.
The Dancing House of Frank Gehry and Vlado Miluň in Prague, which was initiated directly by Václav Havel, is often referred to as a symbol of post-modern architecture.
Others include the project of transforming the surroundings of the Masaryk station, which was prepared by the Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid.
The widely-discussed design of the new, modern building of the National Library by Neo-Futurist architect Jan Kaplický, remained only on paper.
Among the successful contemporary Czech architects is Eva Jiřičná, who designed, for example, the Orangery at Prague Castle, Zlín Congress Centre and other buildings abroad.
