Ivan Margolius

Ivan Margolius, (born 27 February 1947), author, architect and propagator of Czech culture and technology.

Margolius was born in Prague, son of JUDr Rudolf Margolius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, and Heda Margolius Kovály, Czech writer and translator, both parents being Holocaust survivors.^[1] He attended primary and secondary schools there and started to study architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Margolius left Czechoslovakia in 1966 because of political persecution of his family. He settled in the United Kingdom where he became a naturalized citizen in 1973 and where he completed his architectural studies at the Polytechnic of Central London. He practised architecture at Yorke Rosenberg Mardall, Foster and Partners, Koetter Kim and Associates and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Margolius co-operated extensively with Jan Kaplický founder of Future Systems. Margolius is an author of numerous articles and books on art, architecture, automobiles, design and history.^[2]

Published works

• Cubism in Architecture and the Applied Arts, David & Charles, Newton Abbot & North Vermont 1979, ISBN 0-7153-7673-X
• Tatra – The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, SAF Publishing, Harrow 1990, ISBN 0-946719-06-3 (written with John G Henry)
• Škoda Laurin & Klement, Osprey Automotive, London 1992, ISBN 1-85532-237-4 (written with Charles Meisl)
• Prague – a guide to 20th century architecture, Ellipsis, London 1996, ISBN 1-899858-18-0
• Church of the Sacred Heart, Jože Plečnik, 1922-33, Architecture in Detail, Phaidon Press, London 1995, ISBN 0-7148-3351-7
• Automobiles by Architects, Wiley-Academy, London 2000, ISBN 0-471-60786-X
• Architects + Engineers = Structures, Wiley-Academy, London 2002, ISBN 0-471-49825-4
• Future Systems, Zlatý řez, Prague 2002, ISBN 80-901562-6-6, (written with Jan Kaplický, Michaela Kadnerová and Jana Tichá)
• ‘Art + Architecture’, Architectural Design, no. 163, vol. 73, no. 3, guest editor, May/June 2003, ISBN 0-470-84773-5
• Czech Inspiration – Česká inspirace, Fraktaly, Praha 2005, ISBN 80-86627-09-8, (written with Jan Kaplický)
• Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century, John Wiley & Sons, London 2006, ISBN 0-470-02219-1
• Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím, Argo, Praha 2007, ISBN 978-80-7203-947-0
• Jan Kaplický Drawings, Circa Press, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-9930721-0-9 (written with Richard Rogers)
• Tatra – The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, new edition, Veloce Publishing, Dorchester 2015, ISBN 978-1-845847-99-9, (written with John G. Henry, foreword by Norman Foster and 'My Father' by Erich Ledwinka)

See also

• Rudolf Margolius
• Heda Margolius Kovály
• Milada Horáková
• Jan Kaplický
• Slánský trial
• A Trial in Prague
• Tatra (company)

References

1. Levy, Alan. "Ivan Margolius: Son of Conscience." The Prague Post. November 27, 2002.
2. Ivan Margolius - Heda Margolius Kovály

Literature

• Margolius Kovály, Heda (1997): Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, New York: Holmes & Meier, ISBN 0-8419-1377-3
• Margolius, Ivan (2006): Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century, London: Wiley, ISBN 0-470-02219-1

External links

• Margolius website
• Radio interview with Ivan Margolius on Jan Kaplicky and Future Systems on 7 December 2009 at the A Palaver website (available as stream and download)