Jaromir Krejcar Society

jaromír krejcar society is a non-profit organization named in honour of the prominent prague architect jaromír krejcar (1895 - 1950). the jaromír krejcar society brought together experts, cultural and educational institutions, self-government, business and banking sector, grant schemes, media, and unites these representatives in order to save the machnáč sanatorium at the national, "czechoslovak", and also international, european, level. the machnáč sanatorium is an exceptionally valuable architectural work of functionalist avant-garde architecture built during the interwar czechoslovak republic. this iconic functionalist building, slovak equivalent of the famous tugendhat villa in brno by mies van der rohe, along with unesco monuments such as bauhaus in dessau by walter gropius or the sanatorium in paimio by aalvar aalt, counts among the gems of european modernism.