Eva Jiřičná, part 2: Wenceslas Sq. “biggest loss” in post-1989 development of Prague

Stripped of her citizenship by Czechoslovakia’s Communist authorities
after 1968, architect Eva Jiřičná, then in her late 20s, remained in
London. In the UK her sleek interiors were a major success and she soon
developed an international reputation. It was not until the 1990s that
Jiřičná was able to return to her native land. However, she wasn’t
long in making up for lost time, designing a number of buildings that made
their mark on Prague and Zlín, the town of her birth. In the second half
of a two-part interview, I asked the architect about her experiences of
working in the Czech Republic. Perhaps surprisingly, she had been reluctant
to take on projects here in the immediate post-1989 period.