Vladimir Slapeta - Bohuslav Fuchs - architect from Brno

Vladimir Slapeta was born in 1947 in the family of architect Lubomir Slapeta, a student of Hans Scharoun. After graduating from architectural studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1972, he started working as an architect in Ostrava. In the years 1973-1991 he was the head of the architecture department of the National Technical Museum in Prague. In the years 1991-1997 he was the dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, and then, until 2000, the vice-chancellor of the same. In the years 2006-2010 he was the dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology. In 2021, the Association of Polish Architects (SARP) awarded the professor with the Bene Merentibus medal, which is awarded to people of particular merit for the broadly understood Polish architecture. He is the author of a number of important publications on modernist architecture and Czech functionalism. More: