Architektúra & Urbanizmus – JOURNAL
The journal publishes research results in the fields of architecture and urban planning.
Texty o architektuře 2014 – 2015: Švýcarsko – české inspiraceTexts about architecture 2014 – 2015: Swiss – czech inspirationsPraha, Kruh 2015. 192 p.ISBN 978-80-903218-6-1
Petr Kratochvíl: Městský veřejný prostorPraha, Zlatý rez 2015. 188 p.ISBN 978-80-88033-00-4
Emancipated: first generation of women architects in Slovakia, exhibitionEmancipované: prvá generácia architektiek na Slovensku, výstavaFoyer FA STU, 8. decembra 2015 – 15. januára 2016Kurátorka výstavy: Henrieta Moravcíková, fotografie: Olja Triaška Stefanovic, výtvarné riešenie: Laura Pastoreková, architektonické riešenie: Martin ZaicekVýstavu podporili: Ministerstvo kultúry SR, Fakulta architektúry STU, Oddelenie architektúry ÚSTARCH SAV
Since its completion, the Slovak Radio Building has been struggling with notable unpopularity; however, the situation is now changing. Responsibility for this shift has been due to the actions of Slovak Radio and Television (RTVS). In cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Technical University (STU) and the Department of Architecture at ÚSTARCH […]
The architect Emil Brüll was a member of the group of Slovakia’s Jewish architects who died or were executed during WW II. He worked in Bratislava, mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. This contribution aims to clarify and complete our information about his work. Many buildings that have been the subject of study for architecture […]
Introduction The Plan Collection and Archives of the Department of History of Architecture and Monuments at the Budapest Technical University possesses many valuable drawings and photographs, including several documents related to Imre Steindl. The most signi€cant pieces of Steindl’s are the fourteen sheets of the Reichstag proposal plan of 1872, and a folder of original […]
The prominent German conservationist Axel Föhl, whose work focuses on industrial heritage, organized a section at the XIV Congress TICCIH in Freiberg in 2009 which, for the first time in the history of these congresses, dealt with the issue of how the arts (painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, film, literature) responded to the phenomenon of the […]
Though small in size, Slovakia is rich in its springs of natural healing water. These springs are an important precondition for the development of the spa as a social institution, yet natural resources alone cannot provide all the services of a spa. For the providing of therapy, what is necessary is a complex of balneology […]
BBalaton’s waves brought consolidation in even wider circles” – this quote from the famous lyrics of a song entitled “The Sixties” confirms that the development of the largest lake in CentralEurope had a pivotal role in the social policies intended to reestablish the socialist system in Hungary after the 1956 revolution. In parallel with the […]
Nová Ostrava, later called Ostrava-Poruba, is the most notable example of a new industrial city founded and constructed in the period of early socialism in Czechoslovakia after World War II. The particular mode of architectural forms, which is strongly evident in the plans of the new city and significantly affected its initial part constructed between […]
The paradigm of the city is now undergoing substantial change against a background of economic, technological and social transformations caused by globalization. The traditional postindustrial city is to be replaced by the city characterized by such attributes as green, sustainable, open, rational, ecological, ideal, creative, global, and generic… – and the notion of Smart City […]
The decade of the 1960s was an exceptionally favourable one for the Czechoslovak cultural and intellectual world. It was during this time that a great many noteworthy initiatives arose across all areas of social life – and the scholarly sphere was no exception. The era’s overall enthusiasm, the emergence of new research trajectories and the […]
Jana Pohaničová – Matúš Dulla: Michal Milan Harminc. Architekt dvoch storočíBratislava, Trio publishing 2014. 184 p. ISBN 978-80-8170-003-3
Körner Zsuzsa A történeti városszövet megújulása 1870 és 1940 között Zsuzsa Körner Renewal of the Historic Urban Fabric between 1870 and 1940BME Urbanisztika Tanszék, Budapest, Hungary, 2015, 183 p. ISBN 978-963-313-146-6
Pohromy, katastrofy a nešťastia v dejinách našich miest18. – 20. október 2016Slovenská historická spoločnosti pri SAV –Sekcia pre dejiny miest
Care (Sorge) for Architecture: As king the Arché of Architecture to DanceKurrators: Benjamín Brádňanský, Petr Hájek, Vít Halada, Ján Studený, Marian Zervan, in cooperation wit the exhibition commisioner Monika MitášováMay 28th – November 27th 2016Pavilion of Czech republic and Slovak republic, 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice
14th International Docomomo Conference Adaptive Reuse Modern Movement Towards the Furture Lisbon, 6. – 9. September 2016
The ‘Department of Architectural Theory and Creation of the Living Environment’ of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (ČSAV) was founded in 1964. In the spirit of the then-pervasive political programme of the Communist state, it was intended to use scientific means to develop methods towards the creation of an ideal architectonic and natural environment for […]
The study addresses the importance of the third scholarly conference organised in the 1950s by ÚSTARCH SAV under the title On the Scientific Problems of Architecture. The initiator of the conference was academician Emil Belluš, who invited important Czech and Slovak architects as well as art historians. The conference was divided into two thematic blocks […]
The aim of this paper was to undertake an analysis of the modes of reference of architectural meanings. For the purpose of the analysis, categories of meanings are defined relying on the work of Nelson Goodman and Erwin Panofsky. The proposed method was tested on the example of two buildings: the Yugoslav pavilion at EXPO […]
The article investigates the representation of Western (West-European and Amer¬ican) urban planning in the professional architectural press in Czechoslovakia during the turbulent period of the early years of the communist regime in 1945 – 1960. Focusing on media discourse, the study discusses the transfer of architectural and urban design concepts within postwar Europe and ques¬tions […]
Architektúra & urbanizmus, as a journal published quarterly by a scholarly institution and declaratively focused on the theory of architecture, urban design and human environments, has represented from its very outset a well-anchored space for the discussion of contemporary architecture. In contrast to the monthly publications like the Slovak journal Projekt or its Czech counterpart […]
The study outlines the form, contents and course of discussions on contemporary architecture in the journal throughout its half-century of publication. Using a basic art-historical categorisation of texts as historiographic, theoretical and critical, the study situates the main themes of each period’s architectonic discussion. It shows that an interest in summary historical texts, which were […]
What were the subjects of the contributions published by the journal Architektúra & urbanizmus during its half-century of existence? The present study discusses the importance of the founding personalities (Emanuel Hruška, Tibor Zalčík and Richard Kittler), notes the conception of its program, and specifically treats the most striking shift in the journal’s history, in the […]
With the present double issue, the journal Architektúra & urbanizmus celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its existence. The studies presented here address selected questions of the general topic that we could call, with some simplification writing about architectural and urban design. Here, we mainly hope to recall the writing in our journal, and discuss what […]