Slohové ohlasy v lidové architektuře jako badatelský problém
Stylistic echoes in folk architecture as a research problem

Author(s): Miroslav Válka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Architecture, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Folk architecture; styles influences; Czech history; history of ethnology;
Summary/Abstract: The relation between the folk and the stylish culture was solved by both ethnography (ethnology) and history of arts. Primarily, these issues were monitored on folk art and in relation of folk and style architecture. At the beginning, the ethnography focused on the timbered house that was considered an expression of autochthon folk architecture. In the inter-war period, it was art historians (Z. Wirth, V. Mencl) who devoted themselves to this theme. They overrated the influence of historical styles and considered the rural house to be an unoriginal rusticated form inspired by high culture. The representatives of Czech functionalism and structuralism (K. Šourek, K. Honzík) took a more complex opinion. After the war, the research was aimed at the documentation of surviving masonry buildings with the terrain echoes of styles as well as at the analysis of decorative elements and their authors (V. Bělík, L. Štěpánek, I. Minář). These issues were extensively monitored in Southern Bohemia, where one speaks even about ”Rustic Baroque”. Based on architectural development, source archives materials and planned documentation, the above issues are solved by M. Ebel and J. Škabrada.

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