The Architectural Manual of Havlíčkův Brod (AMHB), supported by the town of Havlíčkův Brod, is a Czech-English professional and popularizing database featuring 80 of the most significant architectural and artistic structures, building complexes and public-space designs created in Havlíčkův Brod and its environs from 1900 to the present day.
The core of the database consists of texts which not only describe the significance and architectural or artistic conception of the structures, but they also provide information on their history and the circumstances behind their creation. They outline the lives and work of their designers – architects, architectural studios, construction companies, and visual artists. And not least, they also illustrate how the approach to modern architectural interventions in the urban fabric has evolved over the course of nearly twelve decades.
Each entry is accompanied by an appendix containing both contemporary and archival photographs, as well as architectural plans, where the authors have succeeded in uncovering historical material. AMHB is part of the universal Architectural Manual, which connects similar projects created according to the unified methodology of the Brno Architectural Manual (BAM) and enables cross-searching
among them. In its conception, the project draws directly from from the Litomyšl Architectural Manual (LAM, http://lam.litomysl.cz)
Information about the buildings is also made available to the public through guided walks as part of the Walks (with) the City series and via the project’s Facebook page. The project was realized with the financial support of the European Union and the National Recovery Plan announced by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the town of Havlíčkův Brod.
Project team
Project managers / Jana Deveci, Dana Schlaichertová
Project professional supervisor / Dana Schlaichertová
Concept devised by / Dana Schlaichertová, Aleš Veselý, Zuzana Trnková
Texts / Eliška Jedličková, Dana Schlaichertová, Aleš Veselý, Zuzana Trnková
Photography / Nikola Tláskalová, Matěj Skalický
Graphic design / Studio Pixle
Database and website / Via Aurea
Literature research / Dana Schlaichertová, Aleš Veselý, Zuzana Trnková, Hana Nováková, Jarmila Brožová and students from The Stanislav Bechyně Secondary School of Civil Engineering under the guidance of Eva Švecová
Reproduced photographs of the buildings / Zuzana Trnková, Jaroslav Švanda, Jan Jelínek, Filip Šlapal, David Židlický, Libor Blažek, Martin Findeis
Specialist editor / Aleš Veselý
Language editor / Iva Korbelová
English translation / Graeme Dibble
Further cooperation / Vysočina Regional Library, Havlíčkův Brod; Vysočina Gallery and Museum, Havlíčkův Brod; Havlíčkův Brod Tourist Information Centre
Collection items and archival materials
Building Department of the Havlíčkův Brod Municipal Office; Moravian Archive – State District Archive, Havlíčkův Brod (SOkA HB); Vysočina Gallery and Museum, Havlíčkův Brod (GMVHB); National Technical Museum; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Litomyšl City Gallery; archives of participating architectural studios and private archives
Project licence
Faculty of Architecture, Brno University of Technology
Conceptual and methodological model
Brno Architectural Manual (BAM) / bam.brno.cz
Litomyšl Architectural Manual (LAM) / lam.litomysl.cz
Project realization
The town of Havlíčkův Brod
Personal thanks
To Miroslav Kružík and Dana Nováková of the Moravian Archive in Brno – State District Archive, Havlíčkův Brod, for granting access to archival materials and for their cooperation in the digitization process; to Alena Jindrová, Věra Fejtová and Martin Firon of the Vysočina Gallery and Museum, Havlíčkův Brod, for providing historical plans and photographs; to Jitka Hladíková, Viera Vaněčková and Jiří Bárta of the Vysočina Regional Library, Havlíčkův Brod, for digitizing archival materials and photographs; to Libor Sochor, Josef Beneš and Marek Jokš of the Havlíčkův Brod Municipal Office for granting access to planning documentation and providing IT support; to Josef Charamza, Ondřej Vojíř, Eva Švecová and the students of the Stanislav Bechyně Secondary School of Civil Engineering for their collaboration in researching literature and archival materials; and to Anna Marie Formánková and her colleagues from the Havlíčkův Brod Tourist Information Centre for promoting the project and its related events.
Special thanks
To the Mayor of Havlíčkův Brod, Zbyněk Stejskal, for his personal support of the project;
to the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic for the financial support of the project;
and to the owners, co-owners and managers of the properties who granted permission for the publication of archival materials and the creation of the current documentation.