About the project

Welcome to Jičín!

 

The Jičín Architectural Manual is a modern, virtual guide to the architecture of Jičín. It is disseminated online and supported by printed brochures. The method it employs places it squarely in the “family” of architectural manuals pioneered by the Brno Architectural Manual. The focus of our interest is the modern town, i.e. Jičín in the period from 1850 to the present, knowledge of which is key to understanding the town we live in today.

 

The guide is divided into separate walks, but the user can also pick out texts on specific buildings or architects to read individually. The guide assimilates the results of expert research conducted by historians, architectural and art historians, experts in the conservation of cultural heritage, and from other sources – newly acquired photographs, archive photographs and postcards, as well as modern and archive town plans. We publish the texts in parallel, in Czech, English and Polish. We are also planning to create audio recordings for each building. 

 

The project has been realised in Jičín by the Jičín Association for Architecture and Urbanism (Jičínský spolek pro architekturu a urbanismus).

 

Eva Chodějovská

 

Gabriela Adámková-Petrová
Tamara Baudišová
Eva Bílková

Eva Chodějovská
Radka Janků

 

Hubert Hesoun

 

Tuan Vuong Trong in collaboration with Zdeněk Franc

 

Via Aurea s.r.o.

 

Marie Chodúrová

Vojtěch Janda

 

Eva Chodějovská

Radek Jiránek

 

James Preston (English)
Renata Bartoš and Adam Baudiš (Polish)

Photographs and postcards have been provided by

the Regional Museum and Gallery in Jičín (Regionální muzeum a galerie v Jičíně), Jiří Boček, Oldřich Havlíček, Jiří Ullrich, Hugo Zellerin