František Janda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

František Janda

Czech architect

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1886

Place of Birth: Běrunice, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 02-Mar-1956

Profession: architect

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

František Janda (10 September 1886 – 2 March 1956) was a Czech architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs.
Janda studied under the tutelage of Jan Kotera at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Along with pianist and composer Václav Štepán he founded the Arts Forum, for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's Malá Strana district.
For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building.
In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the communist government.
Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death.
His most famous building is probably the functionalist Waldekova Vila in Hradec Králové (1937).