A Bridge That Turned Into a Pier. Late Epilogue to Karel Prager’s Vision of Prague’s Koší












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            * Ondřej Váša
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            Abstract

            Karel Prager’s project of the experimental housing development in Košíře (1975) was doomed
            ultimate failure from the beginning. As a specific variation of Yona Friedman’s vision of 
            the city”, it was supposed to hover above the town, exploiting inaccessible or built?up te

            avoiding a costly and painful redevelopment. It promised to be just a small sample of a un
            for overpopulated cities, as well as a universal construction set for any unforeseen requi
            future populations. For these purposes, the simple frame utilised the bridge?system, and a

            on the logic of the labyrinth. Yet in doing so, however unintentionally, it both turned th
            city into a second?rate underworld and imposed on its inhabitants a most determinative sys

            variations, trading the burden of architectural responsibility for the apparent freedom of
            The essay analyses both the key structural elements of the superstructure – the bridge, th
            environmental aspect – and the logic of the megastructural movement which presents a prope

            Prager’s vision.

            Keywords: architecture; urbanism; bridge; megastructure; superstructure; Situationist Inte

            Prager; Friedman; Maki

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