The academic peer-reviewed journal.
Provides a forum for the publication of research papers on architecture and town-planning of 20th and 21st century, with focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
Scientific studies
The Unseen Boulevard
This study examines the enduring legacy of Eliel Saarinen’s boulevard concept, originally proposed in his 1918 Greater Helsinki Project, and…
Mechanisms and Conditions for Building a Network of Department Stores in Postwar (Czecho-)Slovakia
The study examines the mechanisms behind the postwar development of department stores in (Czecho-) Slovakia against the background of the…
“We Knew It Right Away: This Was No Easy Job”
Eva Hollo Vecsei (1930), a pioneering Hungarian architect who emigrated to Canada in 1956, became a significant figure in Québec’s…
Two Paths Out of the Suburban Situation
At the start of the millennium, many settlements that were originally villages at the suburban edge of Prague saw their…
Forum
Oceľový dom – The Steel House
In the interwar period, various European countries saw attempts to turn the building of houses from a craft-based endeavor to…
The Ambition for Centralized Control
The article explores the formative years (1948–1953) of Stavoprojekt, the largest state design institution in state-socialist Czechoslovakia. As part of…
Michal Maximilián Scheer
In 1925, the first architecture graduates completed their studies at the two technical universities in Brno – the Czech and…
Alfred Neumann’s Design for a Chair in the Villa of Dr. Slezák in Brno
This article explores the lesser-known furniture designs of Alfred Neumann, a visionary modernist architect whose innovative thinking shaped postwar architecture…
