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- ItemConstructing Global Modernism: Jaroslav J. Polivka, Frank Lloyd Wright and Henry Kaiser(Docomomo Hawaii, 9. 2. 2021,, 2021-02-09) Jackson, LadislavIn 1939, due to WWII and the Nuremberg Laws, the revolutionary Czech structural engineer Jaroslav J. Polívka arrived in the United States. After his arrival, he started a research job at UC Berkeley, renewed his engineering practice, and offered his services to the US military as many businesspersons did during this era. Polívka worked for Henry Kaiser who turned Richmond, CA, into a vibrant, fast developing workers city. New residential districts, hospitals, hangars, docks, and warehouses were built there. Henry Kaiser approached the structural development of the city in the same way he revolutionized the construction of battleships: from prefabricated, standardized parts. He supported research and development of new technologies. Mobile, round-shaped hospitals from prefabricated aluminum frames were one of the results of that research. In 1946, Jaroslav J. Polívka introduced himself to the “starchitect” Frank Lloyd Wright. A productive mutual co-operation that lasted 13 years and resulted in eight spectacular projects had started and Polívka, who had been working on extensive research both at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, came up with many technological, structural, and material innovations over the period. In 1957, Henry Kaiser funded the construction of one of the two geodesic domes designed by Richard Buckminster Fuller in Hawaii and in the process he invited Frank Lloyd Wright to consult the project. Jaroslav J. Polívka was probably in direct contact with Fuller, since he wanted to include him in his unfinished project of an encyclopedia of the world-famous structural engineers. On this particular story and a social matrix evolving around Henry Kaiser and Frank Lloyd Wright, the lecture seeks to rethink architectural global modernism as a cooperative project rather than a series of individual innovations manifested by isolated genius figures.
- ItemThe “Raumplan” and has there been one after Adolf Loos?(Virginia Tech, School of Architecture, 2021-02-19) Jackson, LadislavIn 1931, the Vienna publishing house Anton Schroll & Co. published Heinrich Kulka’s extensive monograph on Adolf Loos. In his text, Kulka discussed Loos’s idea of being an architect, he wrote about ornament and the reduction of ornament, and then, on about one page, he outlined Loos’s space concept, which he named “raumplan”. He emphasized a better organization and rationalization of interior space as Loos’s main innovation. However, when we look at Loos’s 1920s and 1930s houses, they boast of a huge waste of space (and money). After Loos’s death in 1933, many of his apprentices continued designing “in the Loos manner”, as Heinrich Kulka promoted his projects from the mid-1930s. At the same time, we can see that the apprentices‘ projects do not achieve Loos’s spatial qualities and proportions and their works had been contaminated with other inventions of architectural avant-garde. What was the real purpose of the invention and use of the term “raumplan“ by Loos’s pupils and has there been anything like that after Loos’s death? The lecture will try to answer this question using examples of post-Loos works by Heinrich Kulka and Kurt Unger from 1933 to 1939.
- ItemBohemian Rhapsody? Writing and Collecting Queer Cultural History in the Czech Republic(GLBT Historical Society, 2020-01-23) Jackson, LadislavIn autumn 2019, the Czech Republic celebrated the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Velvet Revolution, which ended four decades of communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia. New freedoms have made it easier for LGBTQ people to live their lives more openly in this Central European country, yet they still face significant challenges. Established in 2014, the Society for Queer Memory is the first Czech queer archives and museum. It now holds more than 1,000 objects. Art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender will discuss the work of the organization, providing insight into how the history of queer lives and experiences is being documented and presented in the Czech Republic. His talk will compare and contrast the ways that the path to queer emancipation in Central Europe has been distinct from the United States.
- ItemAdolf Loos: Mezi tradicí a pokrokem(Galerie výtvarného uměnín v Chebu, 2020-09-02) Jackson, LadislavV letošním roce si připomínáme sto padesáté výročí narození jednoho z nejoriginálnějších architektů dvacátého století: Adolfa Loose (1870-1933). Přednáška představí Loosovu publicistickou činnost, hlavní myšlenky jeho architektury, jejich vzájemné rozpory, ale také Loosovy pokračovatele, jako byl Kurt Unger, Heinrich Kulka, dále jeho propagátory v českých zemích, jakými byli Jan Vaněk, Bohumil Markalous a Bořivoj Kriegerbeck, i nepřátele, mezi něž se řadil třeba Otto Wagner či Josef Gočár. V představení Loosovy architektury se přednáška zaměří na tzv. Raumplan, prostorové uspořádání moderního bydlení, jeho zdroje, mezi něž můžeme řadit klasické dispoziční schéma venkovského paláce, i na to, jak byl Loosův Raumplan rozvíjen a obohacován o další inovace v prostředí nejmladší generace vídeňských předválečných architektů, jako byl Fritz Reichl či Josef Frank.
- ItemPresence/Absence: Constructing Queer Histories(University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, Department of Art and Art History, 9. 2. 2021, 2021-02-09) Jackson, LadislavArt historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender will discuss qriting and performing queer art history in Central European context, providing insight into how the history of queer lives and experiences is being documented and presented in the Czech Republic. His talk will compare and contrast the ways that the path to queer emancipation in Central Europe has been distinct from the United States.