Industrial Prague. Technical Buildings and Industrial Architecture in Prague.
The book is an alternative guide to transport, technical, and industrial structures in Prague. It contains 325 articles, 506 photographs, and 17 detailed maps. It was prepared by the Research Centre for Industrial Heritage of the Czech Technical University in Prague, in cooperation with Prague City Hall as a part of Industrial Heritage Register project.
The buildings and structures presented in the book are arranged within the chapters according to their date of origin, and each chapter corresponds to a section of land demarcated and defined in the land register. The order in which these topographical sections of land are presented follows the pattern of growth and development of Prague during the city’s history. The book includes buildings and structures from the fields of technology and transportation that have already been studied by experts at specialised museums, and industrial buildings whose value and potential for conversion to use in new functions are currently the subject of attention at the VCPD.
The VCPD primarily studies and focuses on the material remains and evidence of industrialisation, but contemporary trends and developments have a tendency to eliminate evidence of the past, which means that mention is also made of some structures that no longer exist. While contemporary production in the field of construction is impersonal in nature, the VCPD at all times endeavours in its research to determine who the entrepreneurs, builders, and architects behind each structure or building were, and the hundreds or perhaps even thousands of their employees are present in this text via the results of their work. This book is intended to serve as an alternative guide to Prague, a guide to the places where until now one would only have strayed by accident.
Lukáš Beran – Vladislava Valchářová (eds.), Robin Cassling (tr.), Industrial Prague. Technical Buildings and Industrial Architecture in Prague.
© 2006 České vysoké učení technické v Praze / Czech Technical University in Prague
B5, paperback, 288 pages,
ISBN 80-01-03511-5
