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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

17) And round the corner, you’ve got this decorative piece which caught my eye.

Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

16) On Roškotova itself, you’ve got the Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory, which specialises in contemporary music; whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/01/14/p... is a post I particularly enjoyed writing.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

15) His sister, Anna Roškotová (1883-1967), was a renowned painter.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

14) Roškot died in Paris in 1945, and a posthumous exhibition of his work took place in Prague a year later.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

13) His most famous work, though, is probably the Roškot Theatre in Ústí nad Orlicí, opened in 1936 (postcard from around that time).

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

12) When he designed it, it was scheduled to be the Supreme Accounting and Auditing Office.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

11) He also designed what is now the Ministry of the Interior in Prague 6 (picture from 25 February 2023, during a commemoration of the first anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine).

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

10) Neither was responsible for these new machines that everyone was having a hullaballoo about last weekend, so please take your rage elsewhere and keep trying to find a time machine that can take us back to 2016.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

9) While the architect Adolf Benš was responsible for the main building, Roškot prepared the overall layout of some of the other airport buildings, including houses for the airport director, administrator and gatekeeper.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

8.1) I hardly need to explain who it's named after now, but all the same, here you go: whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/14/p....

Prague 1, day 104: Náměstí Václava Havla

Originally published on X on 5 January 2024. Václav Havel was born in 1936 in Prague. His family was well-off and well-known: his grandfather Vácslav (1861-1921) had built Lucerna, while his father…

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

8) However, the work of his you’re most likely have spent time near to is somewhat out of the centre.

It was part of a complex which opened in 1937, and, until 2012, went by the name of Prague Ruzyně International Airport.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

7) He also built several residential buildings around Prague – I would love to share links to the streets they’re on, but this will have to wait, as they’re mainly in Prague 6, 7 and 10.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

6) Internationally, he got attention for his Czechoslovak pavillions at World Exhibitions in Milan (1926), Chicago (1933; picture one) and New York (1939; picture two; noticeably, the pavilion represented the whole country despite the Nazis having recently dismembered it).

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

5) In 1921, Roškot became a founding member of the Association of Building Design (soon renamed as the Association of Architects).

His architecture was based around reimagining urban areas in the form of ideal geometric formations.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

4) This was followed by further studies – of philosophy and art history at Charles University – from 1911 to 1913, and, after military service on the Russian and Serbian fronts in WW1, architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts (1919 to 1922).

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

3) From 1904 to 1910, he studied civil engineering at Prague’s German Technical University, while taking part-time architecture classes at the Czech counterpart.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

2) Kamil Roškot was born in Vlašim in 1886; as a teenager, he studied at the gymnasium on Křemencova (Bohemia’s first Realgymnasium – see whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/13/p...).

Prague 1, day 100: Křemencova

Originally published on X on 1 January 2024. Around 1400, one of the houses on this street was owned by a Velík Křemenec, whose name literally translates as ‘Big Quartzite’, which is incredible. We…

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 2h

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 200: Roškotova, built in 1990.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

10) When the park opened in September 2020 (for all the use it presumably got in the nine months after that), it was called ‘Přátelská zahrada’, or ‘Friendly park’. It was renamed after Born in 2024.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

9) If you go to a bookshop looking for a copy of Knihy džunglí – Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book - and you come across this version, you’ll have one of Born’s last works. He illustrated it in 2015, and died in the following year.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

8) From 1992 – i.e. post-censorship – Born created postage stamps for Czech Post; he also designed costumes and sets for the Czech National Theatre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXXi...

Antonin Dvorak: Čert a Káča/ The devil and Kate - Devil´s dance (Balet)

YouTube video by AchillesValda

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

7) Most famously, he was responsible for the design of Mach a Šebestová, a 1982 animated series about two students and a magic telephone receiver.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCQ0...

Mach a Šebestová - K tabuli - O utrženém sluchátku

YouTube video by Pohádky pro děti

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

6) From 1973, the Czechoslovak authorities banned Born from presenting his works at exhibitions or in the press, and he started to focus on book illustrations and animations.

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

5) After his studies, Born made a living by providing illustrations for books and drawing caricatures for newspapers. In 1966, he and the American illustrator Gene Deitch animated the first ever screen adaptation of The Hobbit.
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First Animated Hobbit - directed by Gene Deitch, produced by Rembrandt Films

YouTube video by RembrandtFilms

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Ed Ley @edley.bsky.social · 1d

4) He studied there in the Department of Caricature and Newspaper Drawing, and I can’t be the only one reading those words right now and suddenly wanting to go back to university.

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