“…28 Indeed, the latter form, if assumed by an architect with a sharp sense of aesthetic quality and able to avoid the temptation of thoughtless grandiosity, was for Dostál and Konečná, "fully justified in becoming, undeformed in its principles, the most valuable partner to a refined and aesthetically powerful historical environment". 29 Dostál's faith in the possibilities of such partnership, i.e., the capability of modern works to enrich the historic legacy, matched his deep conviction that both individual buildings and historic ensembles could be shaped by our time and thus also transformed. In his article on the new façade of the Emmaus Monastery church, written with Aleš Vošahlík, he invoked evolutionism, a "dynamic, evolutionary belief" that in his view strongly corresponded to the logic of architectural history.…”