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EPISODE · May 12, 2026 · 14 MIN

Šumperáky houses: retro-modernism wrapped in mystery

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Šumperák is the nickname of a type of house built in Czechoslovakia mainly during the 1960s and 70s. Ostensibly modernist, even avant-garde, with its distinctive first storey angled roof and balcony, the story of the Šumperák is in fact far more layered and complicated than may originally appear.

Šumperák is the nickname of a type of house built in Czechoslovakia mainly during the 1960s and 70s. Ostensibly modernist, even avant-garde, with its distinctive first storey angled roof and balcony, the story of the Šumperák is in fact far more layered and complicated than may originally appear.

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