In the interwar period, various European countries saw attempts to turn the building of houses from a craft-based endeavor to industrialized machine production. One of these attempts was the Oceľový dom [Steel House] company in Bratislava, formed in the late 1920s to produce prefabricated steel-frame houses. Drawing upon strong ambition and powerful industrial backing, and emboldened by its early successes, the company nonetheless soon began to struggle and eventually was forced to leave the scene. Far from achieving the widespread impact it had envisioned, Steel House remained only a short-lived episode in the turbulent development of construction in the interwar period.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/archandurb.2025.59.1-2.7
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