Václav Šantrůček

A renowned Prague architect cooperating with Antonín Mendl since 1921: both became the authors of numerous structures including Sokol halls, schools, municipal, family and office buildings, awarded competing designs and town-planning solutions in Prague, in the countryside and Slovakia ( for instance the design of the National House in Banská Bystrica). Their visually cultivated work with expressionist motifs oscillated between Neoclassicism, Art deco and “new” Purism and Functionalism, the later prevailed in the second half of the 1920s.