Jan Bočan

Jan Bočan (17 October 1937 – 7 December 2010) was a Czech architect, university educator, urban planner and designer.

In 1962, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, where he returned in 1990 as the head of his studio.

[1] Among other things, he is the co-author of the new building of the Praha hlavní nádraží (Prague Central Station), Fairmont Golden Prague Hotel,[1] the Prague housing estate Velká Ohrada[2] and several embassy buildings[3] (e.g. the embassies in London, Brasília and Tbilisi).

[4] In 1971, he and a team of co-authors were awarded the RIBA Award for the best design of the year in London for the Сzechoslovak embassy (today Slovak embassy).

[5] The design of the Embassy in Tbilisi was awarded by the Union of Architects and the Ministry of Construction of Georgia in 2005.