In the history of building, Vladimír Fischer is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Vladimír Fischer as Czech architect and university educator (1870–1947).
Vladimír Fischer was born at Fryšták in 1870. His recorded nationality is Czechoslovakia. He trained at Czech Technical University in Prague.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, pedagogue and teacher.
Among his best-known works are Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Church of Saint Augustine. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Czechoslovakia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Vladimír Fischer died in 1947, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Church of Saint John of Nepomuk
- Notable work: Church of Saint Augustine
- Trained at Czech Technical University in Prague
