Prof. Ing. arch. Dr.techn. MILAN BABUSKA
(* 28. 11. 1884, Dubi u Kladna, + 17. 10. 1953, Prague)
He spent his childhood in Unhost, after studies at
a technical secondary school in Rakovnik he studied
architecture at the Prague Technical University. He was
exceptionally musically talented and together with
architecture he studied violin playing.
Before the World War I, he was shortly employed as an
architect. He was promoted to a professorship at the
technical college in Jaromer and, at the same time, he
practised as a self-employed designer. He took part in
several competitions, i.a. he won with his design of the
building of the institute for mental defective children in
Chotebor.
During the World War I, he moved from the technical college
in Jaromer to the technical college of civil engineering in
Prague where he practised till 1923. Then, he was fully
engaged in design activities.
Prof. Babuska was specialized mainly on designs of schools
and industrial buildings and during his live he realized
more than two hundred designs. A relatively small part of
his activity was devoted to family houses. He designed the
industrial buildings of the steel works in Podbrezova and
a complex of buildings for the Masaryk underground mine in
Brestany near Most. In 1937, at the time of danger to the
republic, he designed, together with his team, 28 buildings
for the army airport near Trencin within three months. His
most famous realized construction have remained the
buildings of the Technical and Agricultural Museums in
Prague.
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