František Janda
František Janda (10 September 1886 – 2 March 1956) was a Czechoslovak architect and urban planner, in which capacity he authored many regulation designs. Janda studied under the tutelage of
Jan Kotěra at the
Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Along with pianist and composer
Václav Štěpán he founded the
Arts Forum, for which he designed and in 1925 finished construction of his Cooperative Arts Forum building in Prague's
Malá Strana district. For the remainder of his life Janda lived in this building. In 1960, four years after his death, the property was confiscated by the
communist government. Janda's wife, however, was allowed to continue living there until her death. His most famous building is probably the
functionalist Waldekova Vila in
Hradec Králové (1937).
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