Culture Houses in Czechoslovakia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Culture Houses in Czechoslovakia
Original language description
Hundreds of culture houses were built after World War II in Czechoslovakia. Rooted in the 19 th -century modernist belief in the power of culture to educate and to “enlighten” people ́s minds, institutions dealing with the educational potential of leisure time activities were supported by the newly-established Czechoslovakian state after 1918. The post-war socialist state’s intention to educate and ‘enlighten’ both culturally and politically, as well as to strengthen local communities through leisure time activities, resulted in the development of a specific typology. The dichotomy of culture and ‘enlightenment’ was reflected in the designation of these buildings as culture houses or houses of enlightenment, as well as in the development of prescribed typologies of these houses, researched by state institutions and codified by state norms. In the mid 1960’s, spaces in culture houses devoted to ‘enlightenment’ began being replaced by ‘clubs’, reflecting the transition of Czechoslovakian society in the post-Stalinist era. Nowadays, many of these buildings are losing their function and appearance due to the post-socialist transformation after 1989.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/DG18P02OVV041" target="_blank" >DG18P02OVV041: Architecture and Czech politics in the 19th to 21st century</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Caring State and Architecture: Sites of Education and Culture in Socialist Countries
ISBN
978-953-8232-13-8
Number of pages of the result
21
Pages from-to
45-66
Number of pages of the book
236
Publisher name
Hrvatsko etnološko drruštvo
Place of publication
Zagreb
UT code for WoS chapter
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