Pavel Fousek, a native of Blansko, read architecture at Brno University of Technology. He studied there at the same time as his future wife, Jana, who also made her mark in the history of Jihlava’s architecture as the designer of the school in the Nad Plovárnou housing estate and the SK Jihlava sports hall. Her buildings can also be found in Třebíč and Znojmo. Both graduated in 1968 and then joined Stavoprojekt Jihlava. Pavel Fousek first worked there as an independent designer, as head of the studio from 1982, and as director of the institute between 1988 and 1990. In the seventies and eighties, he designed several medical facilities (a health centre in Žďár nad Sázavou, a hospital pavilion in Blansko) and public buildings (a ceremonial hall in Velké Meziříčí, a savings bank in Třebíč). In cooperation with Milan Blahut, he designed a new crematorium for Jihlava, sensitively set in the landscape on the northern outskirts of the city.
He always tried to work with the predetermined structural system in a resourceful way, as evidenced, for example, by the inclined planes on the main façade of the Žďár health centre and the original entrance porticoes with staircases of the health centre in Třebíč. In creative commissions where he was not bound by the requirements for the cheapest and simplest construction, he worked with common materials such as stone, glass, and wood. Both the Jihlava crematorium building and the ceremonial hall in Velké Meziříčí are characterised by a quiet, yet strong and majestic harmony of natural materials. He also worked with pale stone on the sharply modelled Jihlava Liberation Memorial (Památník osvobození), which was built in the mid-1970s near the central cemetery and destroyed shortly after the Velvet Revolution.
After the collapse of Stavoprojekt in 1991, Pavel Fousek, together with his wife, Jana, and other colleagues, founded a private company, the Society of Project Ateliers (Společnost projektových ateliérů, S.P.A.), which – albeit with new owners – still exists to this day. In the 1990s, he devoted most of his time to renovations of historic houses in Jihlava and other towns. He retired at the end of the first decade of the new millennium.
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Date of birth
9. 6. 1945 Blansko
Selection of further buildings
Crematorium, Smrčenská 80, no.4029, Jihlava, 1970–1976 (with Milan Blahut)
Ceremonial Hall, Karlov 772, Velké Meziříčí, 1973–1974
Health Centre in the Hora-Domky housing estate, Vltavínská 10, no.1289, Třebíč, 1973–1980 (with Jana Fousková)
Liberation Memorial (Památník osvobození), Žižkova 110, no.4763, Jihlava, 1974–1975 (demolished 1990)
Health Centre, Studentská 4, no.1699, Žďár nad Sázavou, 1983–1985
Hospital Medical Ward Pavilion, Sadová 33, no.1596, Blansko, 1984–1986
Hospital Operating Theatres and A&E, Radomyšlská 336, Strakonice, 1985–1989
State Savings Bank (Státní spořitelna) and District Revenue Administration (Okresní finanční správa), Soukopova 22, no.139, Třebíč, 1986–1989 (rebuilt)
Ceremonial Hall, Karlov 772, Velké Meziříčí, 1973–1974
Health Centre in the Hora-Domky housing estate, Vltavínská 10, no.1289, Třebíč, 1973–1980 (with Jana Fousková)
Liberation Memorial (Památník osvobození), Žižkova 110, no.4763, Jihlava, 1974–1975 (demolished 1990)
Health Centre, Studentská 4, no.1699, Žďár nad Sázavou, 1983–1985
Hospital Medical Ward Pavilion, Sadová 33, no.1596, Blansko, 1984–1986
Hospital Operating Theatres and A&E, Radomyšlská 336, Strakonice, 1985–1989
State Savings Bank (Státní spořitelna) and District Revenue Administration (Okresní finanční správa), Soukopova 22, no.139, Třebíč, 1986–1989 (rebuilt)
Literature and other sources
Literatura
40 let Stavoprojektu v Jihlavě 1949–1989, Jihlava 1989.
Michael Třeštík (ed.), Kdo je kdo: architektura, Praha 2000, s. 61.
Renata Vrabelová (ed.), Architektura 60. a 70. let 20. století v České republice, Praha 2020, s. 557.
Ostatní zdroje
Jana Laubová, Architektura Jihlavy 1900–2009, nepublikovaná diplomní práce Katedry dějin umění Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc 2009, s. 92, 99.
