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Ba»a villas and family houses 1
1. Villa of Tomáą Ba»a

author: Mr. Jan Kotěra
year of completion: 1911
location: Zlín, Čepkov, Gahurova 292
owner and occupant: Tomáš Ba»a foundation, Gahurova 292, Zlín
A representative villa in a spacious park whose primary look was proposed and partially built by builder Mr. František Novák from Vizovice. Mr. Tomáš Ba»a requested architect Mr. Jan Kotěra to complete the construction and he carried out several dispositional changes. In particular he changed the central double-storey hall. He also worked with the external look and he markedly simplified the exterior architecture. The villa was situated in the back part of a beautifully and large chosen piece of land in Čepkov, with views to untouched pieces of nature above the river Dřevnice. Mr. Kotěra's garden house was added and this house was built in the years 1911-15. In later years the park was intersected by a four-lane road (Gahurova).
2. Villa of Jan Antonín Ba»a

author: company Zlámal and Plaček, or. F.L. Gahura
year of completion (project): 1927 (1926)
location: centre of city, street Osvoboditelů 187
owner and occupant: Czech radio-communication, street Vinohradská, Prague 2
The villa is a significant monument for the remembrance of Mr. Jan Antonín Ba»a who leads the company after the death of his step-brother Tomáš, the founder of the firm. The house is architectonically and dimensionally discreet. Style wise the house is conceived in an early Kotěra moderna with a very civil character. At the present time the building is the residence of the Czech radio-communications - studio Zlín.
3. Villa of MUDr. Bohuslav Albert

author: Mr. František Lydie Gahura
year of completion (project): 1928 (1927)
location: Zlín, Zálešná, Havlíčkovo nábřeľí 3019
owner: Ba»a regional hospital
The villa is part of the hospital grounds, where it stands on its outer boundary. It was built for Mr. MUDr. Albert who was the senior consultant and director of the Ba»a hospital. The building is proof of a "spar»an" concept of Gahura architecture with industrial windows and simple esthetics and disposition.
4. Villa of architect Vladimír Karfík

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completion: 1935
location: Zlín, Nad Ovčírnou, U lomu 629
owner and occupant: private owner
A freely standing family house is part of an intimate residential complex which is bounded by a forest. It is one of four prototypal family houses, awarded in an international architectural competition, advertised by the company Ba»a in the year 1935 (one of the judges was French architect Mr. Le Corbusier). The competition was aimed at finding more types of company houses and even though none of the awarded objects were built over and over again, today they are rated as expositions of modern living. This villa gained 3rd price in the competition. It is designed in the Ba»a look, with its bi-level spacious position of "American" windows penetrating into the exterior. Till this day it is one of the most beautiful buildings in Zlín. Mr. Vladimír Karfík lived here with his family for 10 years.
5. Villa of director Mr. Hugo Vavrečka

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completion (project): 1941 (1939)
location: Zlín, Mokrá, Stráľe 3661
owner and occupant: company ALLWOOD, a.s.
The villa is divided into 2 upright wings - residential and an area for housekeeping. The author Mr. Vladimír Karfík proposed each of the director's villas in the style that the builder assigned. In the case of the villa of Mr. Hugo Vavrečka it was to be the style of Mr. Jan Kotěra, however the result is more of an example of a later functionalistic architecture of the 40s rather than one which would resemble the Kotěra modernism.
6. Villa of director Josef Hlavnička

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completition (project): 1941 (1938)
location: Zlín, Mokrá, Stráľe 3662
owner: company ALLWOOD, a.s.
occupant: EP Kapitál Group, a.s., Stráľe 3662, Zlín
In the case of this villa the builder also assigned the style for Mr. Vladimír Karfík in which the villa was to be built. For Mr. Josef Hlavnička it was to be a colonial style of house. A rather conservative concept of disposition and façade combines symmetry and asymmetry. Elements of the synthetic stone tincture were used on the façade and other areas are covered by a contrast rough structure type of plaster. Even though the villa is not one of the peak works of Mr. Karfík it is evidence of his abilities to revive architectural concepts.
7. Villa of director Dominik Čipera

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completion (project): 1942 (1939)
location: Zlín, Burešov, Burešov 3675
owner: Centre for handicapped and children in need, Burešov 3675, Zlín
The villa is typical for it practical classicism of the 30s, which comes from architectonic modernism. The quality of the house lies in the harmonic connection of the park and delicate work with the material. It holds an important place in the architect's work for it takes into mind some thoughts of Mr. Adolf Loose. A characteristic - nowhere else used - detail of the building are grated windows hidden behind a concrete, outside covered bar. Noteworthy is also the work of the cladding - the darker colors line the corners and horizontal strips of the façade and lighter colors fill in the remaining areas. Irregular darker "drifting" tiles are also used.
House of the gardener- porter of the Čipera Villa

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completion (project): 1942 (1939) villa, 1941 (1940) - garden house
location: Zlín, Burešov, Burešov 3675(villa), 3674(garden house)
owner and occupant: Centre for handicapped and children in need, Burešov 3675
The house is interesting from several points of view: the simple prism of ecru brickwork is derived from Ba»a family houses but it differs with a "tent" roof and its form. The disposition of it being rolled around the centre chimney and the four different conceptions of facades reminds one of F. L. Wrights and Adolf Loose. The quality of the house lies in the harmonic connection with the park and the villa which has an English country look.
8. Villa of František Malota

author: Mr. Vladimír Karfík
year of completion (project): 1943 (1941)
location: Zlín, Lazy, Lazy I. 3689
owner: private owner
occupant: Children's asylum of family type, Lazy I. 3689, Zlín
For his villa the director Mr. Malota chose a "porýn" beforehitler style. When you look at the plan of the house you cannot miss the constitutive layout of the house and it's link-up to the garden. This concept brings closer the works of Mr. Karfík's projects to the buildings of Mr. F. L. Wright. A notable detail of the building are corner curved windows and dormer-windows which are partially embedded to the brickwork. Both of these constituents are unique in Zlín. Several original pieces of furnishings are preserved in the interior.
9. Villa of Ludvík Malota

author: Mr. Zdeněk Plesník
year of completion (project): 1942 (1941)
location: Zlín, Paseky, K Pasekám 3679
owner: private owner
The family villa of Mr. Ludvík Malota, owner of a candy-store, wine shop and spirit brewery was built as a double-apartment house - the second was intended to be used by one of his sons Karel Malota.
From an architectonical view it is a very successful piece of work, the house is closed-up from the street and it opens up through a garden corner terrace so that entrance from the living room to the garden is climatically sheltered. Architecture parts of the house are original built-in pieces of furniture, also the work of architect Plesník. The villa is a significant piece of work of non-ba»a architecture of the 40s.
10. Villa of Miroslav Zikmund

author: Zdeněk Plesník
year of completion: 1953
location: Zlín, Nivy, ®lebová 2894
owner: Ing. Miroslav Zikmund, ®lebová 2894, Zlín
A freely standing residential villa of the 30s, adapted for the same use in the 50s. It is the home of traveler Mr. Ing. Miroslav Zikmund, which neighbors with the home of Mr. Ing. Jiří Hanzelka and together with the home of composer Mr. Zdeněk Liška (suburb Kudlov), these three villas are unique post-war types of houses. They are all bounded by not only the authors but also the builders. Mr. Zdeněk Liška was the creator of music for the films of Mr. Zikmund and Mr. Hanzelka. The villas are extraordinary examples of post-war development of noble first-republic villas in the villas of the second half of the 20th century. Nowhere else seen is their stylish originality, which informally starts to unwind the architecture of ba»a Zlín. The house of Mr. Miroslav Zikmund was not, unlike the other two villas, a new building but a renovation of an older villa.
11. Villa of Mr. Jiří Hanzelka
author: Zdeněk Plesník
year of completion (project): 1955 (1953-54)
location: Zlín, Nivy, ®lebová 1590
owner and occupant: city Zlín / Occupational therapy
The villa of Mr. Jiří Hanzelka stands on a slope a little higher than the Zikmund villa and has a pyramidal composition (previously the roof of the house had an American Collins transmitter which was seen from far away). It is different from the organized concept of Mr. Zikmund's house and symbolically dominates the housing-development of the suburb Nivy. The evident exaggeration of the scale and size of the Hanzelka villa is given to the dimension of the space for the sound of organs, which were lent for the house from professor Reinberg from Prague. In 1958 Mr. Jiří Hanzelka donated his house to the city of Zlín with condition that, it be used for an all day running kindergarten.
12. Villa of Mr. Zdeněk Liška

author: Zdeněk Plesník
year of completion (project): 1959 (1956)
location: Zlín, Kudlov, Filmová 308
owner and occupant: private owner (the building is being used)
The home of the music composer Mr. Zdeněk Liška (author of music to films such as Markéta Lazarová, Údolí včel, Obchod na korze, Vynález zkázy, Vyšší princip and also to the films of Mr. Hanzelka and Mr. Zikmund) belongs to notable buildings of the post-war era. The garden of the villa is the most advanced, the residential area is crossed due to a pergola which leads to the part of the garden with a pool. This constitutive link is strictly geometrically composed. The harmonic link of the house with the garden is also helped with the sensitive use of material (natural rock, brick, concrete tumblers in a sand shade).
All three villas (Zikmund, Hanzelka and Liška) are notable for their precise layout where the author strived for an unbroken space which leads to the garden. For the pre-war era it was more typical for the villas to be separated into residential places and places for housekeeping. Here these two elements are connected into one. In the residential spaces, the emphasis is stressed on magnanimity and lucidity and the distance and space is minimized because of the built-in furniture.
Used literature:
P. Vąetečka, Zlín - pasportizace stavebních památek (zadavatel: Úřad města Zlína)
Consultant:
ing. arch. Pavel Novák, head architect of city Zlín
Translation:
Radka Vystavělová, Municipal authority of Zlín
- Updated by Pavel Straka day ..24.06.2009 10:23
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