Jaromír Krejcar practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Jaromír Krejcar as Czech architect and university educator (1895–1950).
Jaromír Krejcar was born at Hundsheim in 1895. His recorded nationality is Cisleithania.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, pedagogue and designer.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
That the work was built in Cisleithania shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Jaromír Krejcar died in 1950, aged 55. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
