Ivan Margolius

Ivan Margolius, (27 February 1947, Prague), 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 071537673X
Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka, SAF Publishing, Harrow 1990, ISBN 0946719063 (with John G Henry)
Škoda Laurin & Klement, Osprey Automotive, London 1992, ISBN 1855322374 (with Charles Meisl)
Prague - a guide to 20th century architecture, Ellipsis, London 1996, ISBN 1899858180
Church of the Sacred Heart, Jože Plečnik, 1922-33, Architecture in Detail, Phaidon Press, London 1995, ISBN 0714833517
Automobiles by Architects, Wiley-Academy, London 2000, ISBN 047160786X
Architects + Engineers = Structures, Wiley-Academy, London 2002, ISBN 0471498254
Future Systems, Zlatý řez, Prague 2002 (written with Jan Kaplický, Michaela Kadnerová and Jana Tichá), ISBN 8090156266
‘Art + Architecture’, Architectural Design, no. 163, vol. 73, no. 3, guest editor, May/June 2003, ISBN 0470847735
Czech Inspiration - Česká inspirace, Fraktaly, Praha 2005 (with Jan Kaplický), ISBN 8086627098
Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th century, John Wiley & Sons, London 2006, ISBN 0470022191
Praha za zrcadlem: Putování 20. stoletím, Argo, Praha 2007, ISBN 9788072039470

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

Margolius Kovály, Heda (1997): Under A Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968, New York: Holmes & Meier, ISBN 0841913773
Margolius, Ivan (2006): Reflections of Prague: Journeys through the 20th Century, London: Wiley, ISBN 0470022191