DEVADE: Prague Architecture Between Rigidity and Disco
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AC Bandit in use together with Neue Haas Unica for the book DEVADE: Prague Architecture Between Rigidity and Disco published by The Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Praha).
The book DEVADE: Prague Architecture Between Rigidity and Disco is the first publication to take a critical, retrospective look at Prague’s buildings from the first free decade following the fall of communism. The era was shaped by an influx of foreign capital, the long-suppressed ambitions of Czech architects, predatory capitalism, and the rise of world-renowned starchitects. The book presents the stories of thirty buildings from 1989 to 2004, ranging from the iconic Dancing House to the much-criticized Don Giovanni Hotel and the little-known archival complex in Prague’s Chodov district, without prejudice or nostalgia.
Illustrated with period and contemporary photographs, it offers expert insight into the atmosphere of an era when architecture oscillated between building on the tradition of strict interwar modernism and embracing the postmodern exuberance popular at the time. It shows that the architecture of the 1990s was intellectually much richer and stylistically more diverse than it was long considered to be, and that it offers a key to understanding the post-1989 transformation of the capital city.
The wildness and boundlessness of the era are reflected in fragments of period advertisements on glossy paper that run rhythmically throughout the book, in the green metallic embossing of an iconic building on the purple leatherette cover, and in the bold headlines set in Bandit.
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