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Linhart, Evzen
(b Kourim, Bohemia [now Czech Republic], 20 March 1898; d Prague, 29 Dec 1949). Czech architect. He studied architecture at the Czech Technical University, Prague, and together with his fellow-students Karel Honzík, Jaroslav Fragner and Vít Obrtel (1901–88), he formed the Four Purists; he also became a member of Devetsil, the avant-garde group centred on Karel Teige. After graduating Linhart spent his entire career working as an architect in the construction office of the city of Prague. His first designs followed the principles of Czech Cubism but in the early 1920s he gradually simplified the three-dimensional Cubist façades to smooth, clean, Purist volumes. He sought inspiration for his formal vocabulary in the early work of Le Corbusier, whose aesthetic principles he applied in his own house (1926–8) in Dejvice, Prague. He thus produced the first family house in Prague in the spirit of the International Style, and he followed the same principles in the construction of a secondary school (1935), also in Dejvice. After World War II, in collaboration with Václav Hilsky, he won the competition for a communal dwelling (1946–51) in Litvínov, in which the idea of collective living was expressed in maisonette flats with all necessary services centrally supplied. This form of housing had been the main concern of the architectural section of the Left Front in Prague in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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