Žabovřesky. Od vesnice k zahradní čtvrti ‒ komentovaná procházka s Pavlou Cenkovou

Žabovřesky, one of the four large Czech suburbs of the majority of German Brno, retained a rural character throughout the 19th century and transformed into a urban residential zone only in the first decades of the 20th century. The initiation moment of the formation of Žabovřesk as a suburban zone of private housing meant the arrival of architect Dušan Jurkovič, who built his own villa here in 1906. Subsequently, the so -called Czech clerical district, a colony of family houses, which was built by the Czech clerical building cooperative, began to be established nearby. After 1918, Žabovřesky became a sought -after location for the construction of family housing built for the first time in a large scale for mostly Czech employee middle class. The preserved development of family houses in gardens is a proof of extraordinary generosity of state support programs of the 20th and 1930s, but also the idea of ​​solving one of the thorny contemporary topics, the form of modern individual housing. Modernist and traditionalist elements in this type of buildings meet in original synthesis, often with a remarkable result of indisputable aesthetic qualities. The art historian Pavla Cenková, co-author of the book Brno Arch. Manual 1900-1918. Capacity limited.