Klára Brůhová is an architectural historian focusing primarily on the history of architecture and urban planning in the 20th century. She studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, art history at the Charles University Faculty of Arts and UMPRUM, and gender studies at the Faculty of Humanities at the Charles University. She defended her dissertation at the Faculty of Architecture at the Czech Technical University, publishing her research in the books Praha nepostavená (Prague Unbuilt, 2017) and Pražské vize (Prague Visions, 2018), covering respectively unrealised architectural and urbanistic projects for the city. Currently, her scholarly efforts address the questions facing post-WWII architecture in the Czech Republic and the intensively debated question of its heritage protection – see, e.g., the book Beton Břasy Boletice: Praha na vlně brutalismu (Prague on the Wave of Brutalism, 2019, with Petr Vorlík). She also participated in the research project Architecture in the 1980s in the Czech Republic – the Distinctive Quality and Identity of Architecture and Parallel Reflections against the Backdrop of Normalisation (Architektura osmdesátých let v České republice – Osobitost, identita a paralelní úvahy na pozadí normalizace – NAKI II), during which she published several scholarly articles and co-edited the publication Nepostavená / architektura osmdesátých let (Unbuilt / Architecture of the 1980s, 2020, with Petr Vorlík). With the project Architecture and Politics (Architektura a politika – NAKI II), she published the text “Architektura a emancipace. Situace žen na poli architektury v socialistickém Československu” (Architecture and Emancipation. The Situation of Women in the Field of Architecture in Socialist Czechoslovakia, 2021). The research theme of women in architecture and feminist architectural historiography is one that Brůhová continues to work with, e.g., through her participation in the exhibition “Liberated Space: Care – Architecture – Feminism” (2023, Bratislava City Gallery) or as co-administrator of the project “Architektura (ž.). Ženy, emancipace, architektura v druhé polovině 20. století” (Architecture (f.). Women, emancipation, architecture in the second half of the 20th century, GAČR, 2021–2023) and the online database Women in Architecture (2024).
