Folk architecture - E

Catalogue number	0675
Date of issue	23.2.2011
Face value	20 CZK
Print sheets	á 100 stamps
Size of picture	19 x 23 mm
Graphic designer	Jan Kavan
Engraver	Bohumil Sneider

As part of the national cultural heritage, folk architecture has always been, and hopefully still remains an inspiration for the contemporary people. It can teach the contemporary architects a lesson in the sensitive urbanisation approach to the surrounding landscape; reasonable proportions; frugal use of materials; suitable design for all required functions of a countryside building; high aesthetic level. A few simplified examples can include the characteristic frame structures common in the West Bohemian border region; the two-storey half-timbered buildings with richly decorated gables typical of North Bohemia; the mostly single-storey Central Bohemian chamber structures built of wood, stone or bricks; the wide-front mountain house of East Bohemia and West Moravia; the white farm buildings in the South Bohemian Blatensko region famous for their gables with a multitude of shapes; the longitudinal grid of buildings in South Moravia, distantly echoing the Roman portico, with hand painted porches and separate wine cellars; the half-timbered cottages in the North Moravian Wallachian region, etc. Each of the basic types always comes with several different examples, not to speak about different combined influences and other interesting aspects.
The E-stamp features a North Bohemian gable and a Central Bohemian gate (front), combined with a Wallachian cottage and a South Bohemian gable from the Tábor region (back).

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