Václav Havel’s Prague: A Guide to Buildings and Places with a Role in the Life of the Playwright, Dissident and President

The mosaic presented includes buildings with a variety of functions – from Havel’s favourite pubs, cafes, and theatres, flats of fellow dissidents, secret-police interrogation rooms, and a prison, all the way to changes he initiated in the architecture of the Castle. The seventy entries, presented here chronologically, are accompanied by biographical information about the particular periods of Havel’s life, as well as maps and brief biographical sketches of the architects.
The author, Zdeněk Lukeš, is a historian of architecture. He has organized exhibitions and published dozens of books on the subject and has been employed at Prague Castle for almost thirty years as an adviser on architecture.