Radko Květ

After graduating at the grammar school in Třebíč, Radko Květ enrolled at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Technology in Brno and graduated there in 1980. He subsequently worked at Brnopojekt and, since 1991, has run his own architectonic design studio. He undertakes a wide range of design projects, from public buildings through blocks of flats and detached houses to small architecture designs for parks and public spaces. As well as designing new buildings, he has also designed several reconstructions, with his designs for the reconstruction of Špilberk Castle (2008) being among the most significant.

In the 1990s, Květ's work was influenced by the last vestiges of Postmodernism, as evidenced by his design for the town hall in Brno-Žabovřesky (1995), or by High-Tech trends, as in his design for an apartment block with commercial premises in Minský Street in Brno (1998). These Technicist aesthetics of steel and glass are still evident in his later design for an information centre at the Faculty of Science at Masaryk University in Brno (2008). However, Postmodernist cues have almost disappeared from Květ's work and are evident only in his designs for park pavilions (Litomyšl, Karviná-Fryštát).

In 2004, the Radko Květa design studio completed accomplished designs for a unit of apartment blocks called Farská zahrada in Brno-Komín, which, as in traditional urban blocks, clearly define the street, even though they are constructed as separate blocks, not closed units. A home for senior citizens with an interior atrium built in Brno-Tuřany in 2009 features a similar sense of the aesthetics of so-called pavlač houses (houses with balcony-style walkways). During his extensive career, Radko Květ has designed a wide variety of detached houses, mostly in Brno and its surroundings, with one of the most accomplished being the furthest away – a villa on a steep slope above the town of Frýdlant (2008).

For a long time, Radko Květ has been cooperating with Zdeněk Sendler's studio Ateliér zahradní and krajinkářské architektury on park and garden projects. Together, for example, they gradually revitalized the National Heritage Božena Němcová Park in Karviná-Fryštát, for which Radko Květ designed several buildings – two utility buildings for visitors (1999), a pavilion reminiscent of the ruined Larisch Classicist tombs (2005), and the multi-functional boatyard building (2010). Květ's studio also designed smaller buildings for refreshment and utility purposes for incorporation into Zdeněk Sendler's landscape designs, such as the chateau garden in Jičín (2010). This cooperation was a key factor in design work for the revitalization of the Monastery Gardens in Litomyšl.

The newest and most renowned design by Radko Květo is Archeopark Pavlov (2016) – a conceptually strong, sculpturally devised building, built largely underground into the layer of an archaeological site.
 

1995
Town hall, Brno-Žabovřesky

1998
Reconstruction of apartment block with commercial premises, Brno

2002
Reconstruction of building of National Heritage Institute, Brno

2004
Completion and reconstruction of hospital, Ivančice

2004
Apartment block unit Farská zahrada, Brno-Komín

2005
Permanent exhibition at the Museum of Literature in Moravia, Benedictine Abbey Rajhrad

2005
Reminiscence of ruined Larisch tomb in Božena Němcová Park, Karviná-Fryštát

2006
Park in Slovanské Square, Brno (in cooperation with Ateliér zahradní a krajinářské architektury)

2006
Housing development Hanspaulka, Prague (in cooperation with Ateliér 8000)

2008
Reconstruction of Špilberk Castle, Brno

2008
Information centre at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno

2009
Home senior citizens with interior atrium, Brno-Tuřany

2010
Multi-purpose boatyard building in Božená Němcová Park, Karviná-Fryštát

2010
Chateau gardens, Jičín (in cooperation with Ateliér zahradní a krajinářské architektury)

2016
Archeopark, Pavlov