Baba Colony

One truly outstanding concept in the history of Czech and European Functionalism is the Baba Colony of residences. It was established as one of Europe's exemplary modern lifestyle suburbs. Between 1932 and 1940, a total of 33 villas of various types were built here. The author of the urban design was the well-known architect Pavel Janák, and the individual houses were also designed by other Czech architects, such as Josef Gočár, Ladislav Žák, and others. One of the villas is the work of the only participating guest from abroad, the Dutch architect Mart Stam. A unique set of modernist villas with terraces and flat roofs arranged in a checkerboard pattern offers their inhabitants a magnificent view of the Prague panorama. Thanks to its distinctiveness, the Baba Colony has been an Urban Heritage Zone since 1993 and has recently been added to the European Heritage List.