Práce Jaromira Krejcara 1933

Teige, Karel. Práce Jaromira Krejcara [The Work of Jaromír Krejcar]. Prague: Václav Petr, 1933. Edice soudobé mezinárodní architektury ESMA. 4to. 208 pp. Cover and title page designed by Karel Teige. Typo by Krejcar. Filled with photographs, designs and blueprints. Extensive captions also in German and Russian. In the 1920s, Architect Jaromír Krejcar was a leading advocate for functionalism and purism against the lingering historicist and decorativist styles in Prague. Representing the Bauhaus in Czechoslovakia, he founded the Club for New Prague and was a member of the Left Front, the Union of Socialist Architects and Devětsil. He worked briefly in Moscow in the mid 1930s but then returned disillusioned and broke off contact with the left and Karel Teige. In 1937, he won two Grand Prix and the Gold Medal for Architecture at the International Exposition in Paris, due in part to the exceptional Czechoslovak pavilion (designed with Ladislav Sutnar, among others). Very good condition.