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Jan Kaplický

1937 - 2009

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Jan Kaplický (; Czech: [ˈjan ˈkaplɪtskiː]; 18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was a Neofuturistic Czech architect who spent a significant part of his life in the United Kingdom. He was the leading architect behind the innovative design office, Future Systems. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Kaplický has received more than 137,475 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Kaplický is the 427th most popular architect (down from 396th in 2019), the 624th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 556th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Czech Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Jan Kaplický ranks 427 out of 518. Before him are Ong Teng Cheong, Mihály Pollack, Carlos Raúl Villanueva, Peter Cook, Ventura Rodríguez, and Daniel Marot. After him are Jan Kotěra, Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, Guðjón Samúelsson, Matvey Kazakov, Ragnar Östberg, and Johann Friedrich Höger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Jan Kaplický ranks 376. Before him are Carmelo Bene, Héctor Facundo, Attilio Nicora, Nancy Wilson, Ferenc Kósa, and Jacques Barrot. After him are Joanna Russ, René Kollo, Frans De Mulder, Barbara Windsor, David Acevedo, and Richard H. Truly. Among people deceased in 2009, Jan Kaplický ranks 260. Before him are Shota Chochishvili, Charles W. Juels, Héctor Facundo, Harve Presnell, Mary Travers, and Roger Planchon. After him are Sergei Magnitsky, Jacques Chessex, Godfrey Rampling, Norbert Eschmann, Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, and Daniel Jarque.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Kaplický ranks 624 out of 1,200. Before him are Josef Václav Myslbek (1848), Hellmuth Karasek (1934), Martin Frič (1902), Pavel Kuka (1968), Jaromír Nohavica (1953), and Zdeněk Mlynář (1930). After him are Zdeněk Pecka (1954), Jan Kotěra (1871), Adolf Born (1930), Karolina Světlá (1830), Jan Brzák-Felix (1912), and Václav Hovorka (1931).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Czechia

Among architects born in Czechia, Jan Kaplický ranks 8. Before him are Josef Hoffmann (1870), Balthasar Neumann (1687), Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867), Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689), Jan Santini Aichel (1677), and Adolf Lang (1848). After him are Jan Kotěra (1871), and Josef Gočár (1880).

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