
Hana Kučerová-Záveská´s Work Presented at the Royal Institute of Art
28.11.2018 / 13:10 | Aktualizováno: 17.02.2020 / 14:43
Architecture of Care, a seminar about overlooked figures of women pioneers within modern art, architecture and design took place in the Royal Institute of Art on 27 November 2018.
Its main focus was the Czech architect Hana Kučerová-Záveská, who came to Sweden in 1937 as the wife of the Czechoslovak envoy Vladimír Kučera, and her collaboration and friendship with the Swedish architect Ingeborg Waern Bugge with whose bureau she worked in 1939 - 1944. Monika Pachmanová, a historian of art from Prague, was one of the main speakers. The seminar was organized by Rado Ištok and it was well attended by many Swedish experts and students. Also Vladimír Kučera, the son of Hana-Kučerová Záveská, his family, and the current Ambassador to Sweden Jiří Šitler were present. The participants got acquainted not only with the work of female architects, but also with career obstacles they had to encounter. At the same time, the lecturers acknowledged the relatively high level of women´s emancipation and gender progressiveness of interwar Czechoslovakia.