| Project Id |
3608 |
| Project Name |
Franz Kafka Society Center, Austria |
| Description |
The small one-story building in the former Jewish quarter of Prague houses the Franz Kafka Society. After restoration, the basement of the building, previously used as a laundry and storage, is a multi-functional space for exhibitions, lectures, and concerts accompanied by Franz Kafka’s private library. The first floor partitioned with the bookshelves, designed white on the office's side and black on the bookstore/entry hall side. A 360-degree rotating door between the corridor and the director’s offices, black on one side and white on the other, reverses white to black. The flat roof of the courtyard building is used for concerts and exhibitions during summer, and it is accessible through the Franz Kafka bookstore. NOTE: In the required field "Country" the dropdown menu does not contain Czechia nor the Czech Republic, therefore chosen Austria. |
| Description of the economic, social and environmental impacts of the project |
The Franz Kafka Society is a non-profit NGO, established in 1990, to promote Prague German literature and its most famous representative Franz Kafka; reviving traditions and significance of multicultural Central Europe, where the Czechs, Germans and the Jews have been living together for centuries. Society is devoting attention to Kafka's work and making his legacy an essential component of the Czech cultural context. |
| Web links |
http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/ |
| Country |
Austria |
| City size |
Metropolis (between 1 and 10 million people) |
