Le quartier du Nikolaiviertel, situé au centre de Berlin, est considéré comme le lieu de naissance de la ville remontant au 13e siècle. Malgré son charme médiéval, le quartier fut construit dans les années 1980. Ce dernier a été conçu comme moyen d’enraciner l’identité est-allemande dans le passé afin de se démarquer culturellement de ces voisins à l’ouest, et ce, à une époque de détente et de rapprochement entre la République démocratique allemande (RDA) et la République fédérale d’Allemagne (RFA). Depuis la construction du quartier, Berlin a connu une transformation exceptionnelle; elle est passée de ville scindée à la capitale d’un des pays les plus puissants au monde. La question se pose : quelle est l’importance de Nikolaiviertel, ce projet identitaire est-allemand, dans le Berlin réunifié d’aujourd’hui ? Ce projet part de l’hypothèse que le quartier est beaucoup plus important que laisse croire sa réputation de simple site touristique kitsch. En étudiant les rôles que joue le Nikolaiviertel dans la ville d’aujourd’hui, cette recherche démontre que le quartier est un important lieu identitaire au centre de la ville puisqu’il représente simultanément une multiplicité d’identités indissociables à Berlin, c’est-à-dire une identité locale berlinoise, une identité nationale est-allemande et une identité supranationale européenne. / The Nikolaiviertel neighborhood in the heart of Berlin is considered the birthplace of the city going back to the 13th century. Despite its medieval charm, the quarter was only built in the 1980s. It was conceived as a means of rooting the East German identity in the past to differentiate itself culturally from its western neighbor during a time of détente and rapprochement between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). Berlin has changed enormously since the construction of the Nikolaiviertel: the once-divided city is now the reunified capital of one of the most powerful nations in the world. So how important is the Nikolaiviertel today, a neighborhood built to strengthen East Germany’s identity? This study posits that the quarter is more important than its reputation as a simple kitsch tourist site suggests. By studying its roles in contemporary Berlin, this research shows that the Nikolaiviertel is significant for Berlin’s place identity by manifesting a multiplicity of identities intrinsic to Berlin, i.e. a local Berliner identity, a national East German identity and a supranational European identity. / Das Nikolaiviertel im Herzen Berlins gilt als Geburtsort der Stadt aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Trotz seines mittelalterlichen Charmes wurde das Viertel 1987 fertiggestellt. Es nutzte die Vergangenheit als Mittel zur Verwurzelung der ostdeutschen Identität, um sich in einer Zeit der Entspannung zwischen der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) kulturell von ihrem Nachbarn im Westen zu unterscheiden. Berlin hat sich seit dem Bau des Viertels viel verändert: Die einst geteilte Stadt ist nun die wiedervereinigte Hauptstadt einer der mächtigsten Nationen der Welt. So stellt sich die Frage: Wie wichtig ist das Nikolaiviertel, das als Übermittler einer neuen DDR-Identität konzipiert war, im heutigen Berlin? Diese Studie geht davon aus, dass das Viertel wichtiger ist, als sein Ruf als bloße kitschige Sehenswürdigkeit vermuten lässt. Durch die Untersuchung seiner Rolle im heutigen Berlin kommt diese Studie zu dem Schluss, dass das Nikolaiviertel für die Identität Berlins von Bedeutung ist, da es eine Vielzahl von inhärenten Identitäten aufweist: eine lokale Berliner Identität, eine nationale ostdeutsche Identität und eine supranationale europäische Identität.

It is the intention of this thesis to present not only a visual exploration of a design problem, but also an explanation of a particular design process. It is fashionable these days for a designer to make statements about his design philosophy as a way of legitimizing his architectural intentions. My aim is to avoid this kind of justification by instead presenting the project as a process description. This description will make my beliefs and intentions both evident and understandable to those unfamiliar with my work as well as provide a personal record of the project’s development. To date my architecture education has been shaped in different countries, through different educational systems, and with different teachers and students. This thesis stands as a record of my accumulated experiences and as a description of a personal approach to working with architectural problems. I believe the most important part of an architecture education is the development of one‘s own design process. This exposition represents a beginning. / Master of Architecture

The aim of this design thesis was to look carefully at the historical environment of the chosen site, and with the understanding developed from this exploration, to design a group of houses that would answer to the desires of the individual and the needs of the collective, or simply: to create places where people would wish to dwell. "Houses must be special places within places, separately the center of the world for their inhabitants, yet carefully related to the larger place in which they belong."¹ / Master of Architecture

This work considers finds of medieval glass in the historic centre of Prague on the basis of archaeological material from the National Herritage Institute excavations. Besides the typology of glass vessels, special attention is paid to the concerning the social level of the society of that time, resp. the study of glass imports that can inform us of the commercial or cultural contacts of the given locality. Especially the enameled glass play an important role in studies of the extraordinary social and economic status. The archaeological evidences of medieval glass has been found in Prague since the end of the 19 th century. The end of the sixtieths brought large finds of medieval glass fragments which most has not been studied as yet. Some of them are included into this work, which is aimed at the region of Old and New Town, whereas the finds of Prague Castle has been left aside. In the study of the popularity of glass tableware, it is possible to observe the process well documented in the majority of Czech towns. In Prague glass ware fragments appeared quite early, already in the 12th century and also in the following century glass presented luxury ware intended for the highest social level. Towards the end of the 13th century the situation began to change. During the first half of the 14th century we...

The diploma thesis describes the development of St. Anne and St. Lawrence Dominican convents in The Old Town of Prague during early modern period (mainly in the 17th and the 18th centuries). Both the indoor life and contacts with outside world are included in the description. Only three topics of the above-mentioned specialization could be seamlessly elaborated due to fragmentary sources. The introduction and first three chapters constitute a summary of sources and literature. Furthermore, they chronologically depict the history of the Dominican order and the particular convents. The fourth chapter deals with the relationship between the nuns and their dependants in the municipality of Radlice. The system of servile taxes withdrawals and visitations of the monastic farms are emphasized. The chapter finally records a concrete discord between the convent and Barbora Wlaška in the 16th century. The fifth chapter focuses on baroque sermon that were held during ceremonies of admission aspirants among the other nuns. The preachments were analyzed in light of their contents and spiritual thoughts. The last chapter studies the performance of the archiepiscopal authority to the convents in the 18th century and the relationships between the Dominican nuns and aristocratic families or bourgeoisie in the...

The diploma thesis deals with the architectonic tendencies in 1980s in Czechoslovakia which were aside the stream of the official design studios and The Czech architects Union. The aim of the diploma thesis, based on the particular examples of free architectural groups, exhibitions and other activities they had in common, to create vivid and complex image of tendencies in monitored period. The situation of centralized building production is described in the introducing part - what made the youngest and middle generation of architects to attempt at the change of architectonic production and also the status of own profession. In individual chapters you can learn about syndicates "Středotlací", "Vokolo Vosmýho", "Obecní dům" and "Zlatí Orli". The first common exhibitions of graphic artists and architects in early 80s and later the exhibitions of painted/paper architecture arranged by "Technical magazine" between 1985 and 1990 are introduced in the paper. It introduces the activity of Jiří Ševčík who was the essential theorist of contemporary architecture. He devoted his work to mediate foreign, most often postmodern, theory of architecture. The thesis is trying to pass an opinion on the specific point of view of contemporary local interpretation of postmodernism and also to introduce application of...

This dissertation is dealing with the town of Telč and its way of living in the first half of the 20th century. The research is focused on the thorough analysis of local authorities from the social and occupational point of view, territorial origin and location of residence its various fellows. The main purpose of this is to idicate the changes which coincided with the influence of nationwide political, social and economic changes. The illustration of six Telč´s families with various professions charts their share which affected the social, cultural and public life of the town. The aim is to get an integral view of this period, therefore the grammar school staff have been included, because of their participatory role in local authorities and social life as well. Municipal and school celebrations have been included to illustrate the cultural backround of provincial town in the first half of the 20th century.