Adam Štech relates the history.

At the end of the '50s, there was the architect Vladimír Kalivoda.

This architect was from Valašské Meziříčí, and he is one of the few architects at the time they built single-family houses because the typology of single-family house was basically vanished after the Second World War.

It was something again considered non-socialist, like elitist, like bourgeois.

And there were some little exceptions.

And Vladimír Kalivoda built few houses.

But Adam Štech is careful to place their increasingly iconic status in the proper context.

And what I don't like on Šumperak is the fact, not the shape, like the shape is fun, you know, because it's inspired by these houses from Western societies.

Adam Štěch relates the history.

At the end of the 50s there was the architect Vladimir Kalivoda.

This architect was from Valašské Meziříčí and he is one of the few architects at that time they built single-family houses because the typology of single-family house was basically vanished after the Second World War.

It was something again considered non-socialist, like an elitist, like a bourgeois.

And there were some little exceptions.

And Vladimir Kalivoda built a few houses.

And what I

don't like on Šumperak is the fact, not the shape, like the shape is fun, you know, because it's inspired by these houses from Western societies.

Why did you feel that side of the story deserved more attention?

Once a very prominent and very famous Czech architecture historian Rostislav Švácha, he wrote that the topic of cottages and summer houses and cabins is very attractive for a whole generation of architecture historians.

But it's a little bit tricky to explore it because there were not really so many theoretical texts written on this subject.

The texts which were written were mainly kind of practical guides and manuals how to build a cottage.

But there were not so many more, let's say, general and philosophical understanding or description of the phenomenon.

so my method as an architecture historian or architecture explorer is to see things see houses experience them and i was thinking okay so if it's not so many theoretical texts and archive materials that's maybe a chance for me because my method is to go to the places and to really find the houses or forgotten, hidden houses, in this case cottages.

So since few years I was going around all these famous cottage areas around Prague or around Brno or around Czech mountains and I was just trying to look at the landscape, look at the cottages and try to find examples, references of how actually this topic was translated by architects into specific buildings I would say.

Who was he and why does he have such a prominent place in your exhibition?