Vladimír Šlapeta is an architect, leading Czech architectural historian and teacher. In 1991-1997 and 2003-2005 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University, in 2006-2010 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of the Brno University of Technology, where today he is the Head of the Department of Theory. He is the author of numerous publications on twentieth century modern architecture and urbanism.