Workers' playtime: Zlin's radical Czech modernist history informs and sustains new development.(view)(In memoriam)
From: The Architectural Review
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Date: 3/1/2008
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Author: Webb, Michael
To appreciate the radical agenda of Czech functionalism between the wars you should spend a day in Zlin, a town in the province of Moravia that was transformed by the vision of a remarkable individual. Tomas Bat'a was a dynamic industrialist who became the world's largest shoe manufacturer before dying in a plane crash in 1932. The multi-national company that he founded, and his family enlarged, had its origins as a cobbler's shop in his home town. In 1911, he commissioned an ...
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