Category: 2017

Lotte Stam-Beese (1903 – 1988) From Entwurfsarchitektin to Urban-planning Architect

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

The paper takes a closer look at the career of the Silesian-born urban-planning architect Lotte Stam-Beese. This female architect became famous not only in the Netherlands, but also in the circles associated with CIAM, for her designs for modern post-war housing districts in the city of Rotterdam. An initial basis for Stam-Beese’s career was laid […]

Industrial Heritage Utilization

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

A specific modernist building typology, namely the transformer stations that arose with the introduction and spread of electric power usage in the first half of the 20th century, forms the topic for examination in this paper from the architectural and urban-planning points of view. In addition to providing research on this developing period in Budapest, […]

Conservation Challenges for mid-20th Century Houses in Peripheral Scotland

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

Whilst Scotland’s postwar urban planning and mass housing are well documented, the historiography of mid-20th century architecture consists otherwise of relatively few monographs on renowned architects. The history of architect-designed houses is insufficiently researched, despite the existence several outstanding buildings scattered across the country. This paper discusses three such Modernist houses, erected between 1959 – […]

The Problem of the House in 1960s Belgrade: Mediating the Individual and the Collective

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

Focusing on the architecture and ambience of the low-rise high-density single-family housing estate Petlovo Brdo in Belgrade, Serbia (1967 – 1969), the article relates the everyday social production of space in socialism as a modernist-vernacular fusion of the notions of the folkloric and the peripheral. The socio-spatial balance between the individual and the communal, as […]

Red or Blue? The Start of Modern Planning in Bratislava

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

This study presents the history of modern urban planning in Bratislava (then Pozsony/Pressburg) at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It identifies the first three plans for regulation and enlargement of the city: the plan by the City Technical Division from 1898 through 1906, the plan of the retired construction commissioner of Hungarian […]

Changes of Town Centres in the Era of State Socialism – Processes and Paradigms in Urban Design

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

Approaches towards town centres in various eras are highly revealing of the contemporary way of thinking and the pervasive ideas about the past and the future. During the state socialist era, the standpoint was highly unstable, constantly changing according to major shifts in economic and social politics throughout the 45-year life of the regime. These […]

Where is French Urban Design Headed? The Involvement of Private Investors in the Plannning and Implementation of Large-scale Urban Development Projects

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

The article focuses on the transformation of organization of French large scale projects under the progresive liberalization of urban development policies. The transformation of approaches to real estate investment and the reposition of hierarchy of its main actors evolves towards new methods of large scale project management. This influences the urban form, whose new model […]

One Europe

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

ÁKOS MORAVÁNSZKY, JUDITH HOPFENGÄRTNER (eds.) Vol. 1: RE-HUMANIZING ARCHITECTURE, NEW FORMS OF COMMUNITY, 1950 – 19702017, Bazilej: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH. 336 p. ISBN 978-3-0356-1015-4 ÁKOS MORAVÁNSZKY, KARL R. KEGLER (eds.) Vol. 2: RE-SCALING THE ENVIRONMENT, NEW LANDSCAPES OF DESIGN, 1960 – 1980 2017, Bazilej: Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH. 256 p. ISBN 978-3-0356-1015-1 ÁKOS MORAVÁNSZKY, TORSTEN LANGE […]

Hans Karl Stark Notes on the Interwar Aarchitectural Work

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The article deals with the work of a less-well- known functionalist architect, Hans Karl Stark, a graduate of the Technical University in Brno. An important creator of the modern Functionalist architecture of Bratislava, he belonged to the cultural circuit of German architects living and working in Slovakia. Information derived from archival documents brings new knowledge […]

The Acoustical Qualities of Baumhorn’s Synagogues in Slovakia

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The buildings designed by Leopold Baumhorn in Slovakia are unique not only for their architectural but also their acoustic features. As synagogues in post-totalitarian Europe, these buildings no longer serve their original intended function and host mostly various cultural and social events. As a result, it is important to investigate their acoustic characteristics. The current […]

The Critical Potential of “Total Installations” – The Logic of Ilya Kabakov

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The critical potential of “total installations”— the logic of Ilya KabakovThis paper focuses on the analysis of the installation Ten Characters by Ilya Kabakov, as this artwork is considered as a crucial instance in interpreting Soviet narratives and figures as a metaphor for life in the Soviet Union. The paper shows that Kabakov draws attention […]

Context in the Works of Nikola Dobrović on the Territory of Herceg Novi

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

In the conditions of current globalization trends, the creation of a new European political and spatial context and the expression of regional cultural differences, a need has emerged to redefine cultural and urban identity. Spatial-cultural identity is particularly strong in settings enriched by a recognisable geo-climate and cultural and built heritage such as the Adriatic […]

The New Bratislava of Josef Marek

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The study represents the urban-planning work of the relatively unknown Moravian-born architect Josef Marek, a pupil of Jan Kotěra and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his years in Slovakia after 1919 up until the end of the 1950s, Marek created an entire series of urban plans, though the form […]

The Czech Discourse on Regional Planning Between 1945 and 1948

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The study focuses on the peak period of Czech regional planning during the short-lived postwar Czechoslovak democracy (between 1945 and 1948). The author examines the attitudes of leading actors of the debate about regional planning, and discusses how their concepts corresponded with the immediate rhetoric of ongoing political, social and economic transformation. Among the leading […]

The Urban Space of the Migrant Crisis: Analysis of the Spatial Evolution of an Informal Transit Camp in Budapest’s Historic City Centre

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

From June till September 2015, Baross Square in front of Budapest’s Keleti Railway Station became the temporary living area for thousands of refugees and migrants travelling to Western Europe. This unconventional use of one of the busiest squares in the historic centre gave rise to a new perception of the existing environment. The paper aims […]