Route length: approx. 2.5 km, 90–120 minutes. Easy, suitable for a general audience.
Storyline: The walk traces the changing forms of individual housing in Záběhlice from the 1930s to the present, showing how ideas about the family house evolve and how architects respond to terrain, privacy, light, and the urban fabric.
1. František Marek – Family house (1936–1937)
Pivoňková 59, no. 1950
- Marek as a representative of the late functionalist generation.
- The house as an example of refined interwar modernism in a peripheral neighbourhood.
- Work with proportion, a simple volume, horizontal articulation.
- Context: Záběhlice as a then rapidly growing residential area.
2. Petr Keil – Villa with the studio of Jan Měšťan (1971, 1982)
Nad Trnkovem 1, no. 3113
- Architect Petr Keil and his handling of terrain and mass.
- Two time layers: the original villa (1971) and the later studio extension (1982).
- Organic integration into the slope, intimacy, and orientation toward views.
- 1970s architecture outside official monumentality — civil, refined, individual.
3. Jan Štípek – Villa of Oldřich Pošmurný (1977–1981)
Na Vinobraní 48, no. 3117
- Štípek as an architect with a feel for detail and material.
- The villa as an example of a refined family house from the late normalisation period.
- Connection between interior and exterior, work with wood and structure.
- Comparison with Keil — two different approaches to the same type of brief.
4. Ladislav Lábus & Vít Krušina – Villa (2007–2010)
Před Skalkami II, no. 3302
- Lábus as a key figure of contemporary Czech architecture.
- The house as an example of a contemporary approach to urban living: simplicity, use of light, intimacy.
- Restraint in materials, precise detailing, respect for the surroundings.
- How contemporary architecture continues the tradition of modernism.
5. Jan Línek – Terraced apartment houses (2007–2009)
Nad Meandry 3–9, no. 3290–3291
- Urban dimension: work with the street front, scale, and connection to the landscape.
- Terraced houses as a typology between individual and collective housing.
- Simple, contemporary architecture with an emphasis on living quality.
- Closing reflection: how Záběhlice has changed over 80 years.