The Museum of Decorative Arts / Do We Live Humanly? Czechoslovak Werkbund 1914-1948, The Housing Reform Movement 

”The title of the exhibition quotes the Werkbund’s long-time chairman, Pavel Janák, and expresses thirty years of efforts to reform housing. Against the bourgeois pseudo-historic interiors, whose production persisted well into the 1930s, the Werkbund sought to create functional, simpler, healthier, cheaper housing that would also take social issues into account. Thus, the exhibition touched on the timely topic of hard-to-afford housing for aspiring young people and families, an issue that the Werkbund’s exhibitions and competitions tried to address 100 years ago within the context of international developments." (UPM)

Client: The Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM)

Curator: Iva Knobloch
Exhibition design: Josef Tomšej
Graphic design: Štěpán Malovec and Kristina Ambrozová

Year: 2024

Published in Designum magazine 3/2024.