Josef Chochol (1880–1956)

Josef Chochol, who was a founding member of the Left Front organisation and the Association of Socialist Architects, was the only one of the Czech Cubists with a strong political standpoint.

He studied architecture at the Czech Technical College and then between 1904 and 1907 under Otto Wagner in Vienna.

He worked only briefly in the cubist style, designed several stunning houses near the Vltava in Prague. With prismatically sculpted façades, they perfectly illustrate the Czech Cubists' belief that ornament should be inherent in architecture, not something to be applied arbitrarily on the front. He also produced designs for cubist factories, though they were never realized.

In 1914 he abandoned the Cubist style and began working in the internationally oriented constructivist style.