František Janda

František Janda
František Janda
	Waldekova Vila (1937)
Born	10 September 1886; Běrunice, Austria-Hungary; (now Czech Republic)
Died	2 March 1956 (aged 69); Prague, Czechoslovakia
Nationality	Czechoslovakian
Alma mater	Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
Occupation	Architect, urban planner

František Janda (10 September 1886 – 2 March 1956) was a Czech architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs. Janda studied under the tutelage of Jan Kotěra at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.[1] Along with pianist and composer Václav Štěpán he founded the Arts Forum, for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's Malá Strana district. For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building. In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the communist government. Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death. His most famous building is probably the functionalist Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937).[2]

Poděbrady water tower

Kolín water tower

Works

Winter spa in Poděbrady (1912)
30-room art nouveau guest house at Rieger's Square, Poděbrady spa (1912)
Regulation plans for the cities of Mladá Boleslav and Poděbrady (1912) and the spa village Brestovičky
Mladá Boleslav courthouse
Building societies in Mnichovo Hradiště, Holice, Bakov nad Jizerou, Nová Paka and Mnichovo Hradiště
Arts Forum in Prague (1925)
(with Č. Vořech) Theatre Na Prádle, Prague-Malá Strana (1924–26)[3]
District Union building in Nové Strašecí (1928–1930)
Water towers in Kolín (1930; Janda replaced Jan Vladimír Hráský, author of the original 1928 project), Podebrady, Jaroměř, Bělá pod Bezdězem and Pečky
Merkur restaurant and cafe in Jablonec nad Nisou (1930)
Office buildings, including erstwhile municipal HQ, in Sušice (1925–1932)
Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937)

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References

Lukeš, Z., "ARCHITEKTURA: Ještě jednou Kotěra", Lidové noviny, 31 December 2013.
Šmejdová, I., "Běrunice, pětilístek obcí na hranici okresu i kraje", Deník, 15 March 2016.
Hilmera, J., Theatre Na Prádle, European Theatre Architecture Database.

External links

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Photo portrait of Janda (c. 1928)

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[1] Lukeš, Z., "ARCHITEKTURA: Ještě jednou Kotěra", Lidové noviny, 31 December 2013.

[2] Šmejdová, I., "Běrunice, pětilístek obcí na hranici okresu i kraje", Deník, 15 March 2016.

[3] Hilmera, J., Theatre Na Prádle, European Theatre Architecture Database.