Karel Prager (1923 - 2001)

He was a Czech architect who came from Kroměříž. In 1949 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague and his most famous buildings also stand in Prague. In addition to residential houses, he is also the author of some important public buildings. The most appreciated is the building of the Research Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Břevnov, which was declared a cultural monument in 2000. His other Prague realizations are no longer so unequivocally accepted. Some people hate them and others are enchanted by them, whether it is, for example, the building of the former Federal Assembly, the New Stage of the National Theater or Komerční banka in Smíchov in the shape of a truncated pyramid. His architectural designs show a tendency to prefer steel structures for buildings and glass. And at the same time an admiration for the modernist western architecture of the 1960s.