2011, Volume 45, No. 1 - 2
Scientific studies
Contributions to the Architectural Heritage of Slovak Lutherans in Historic Hungary – the Tradition of Baroque Centrality
Gergely Domonkos Nagy, János Krähling
Slovaks and Hungarians have lived together for over a thousand years in Central Europe. Because of the shared course of…
Conservation of the North Facade of the Upper Castle in Český Krumlov
Miloslav Hanzl, Dagmar Michoinová, Václav Girsa
In parallel with the completion of work on the main southern facade of the Krumlov castle, it became necessary in…
Interwar Rental Garages in the Czech Lands
Petr Vorlík
The automobile changed the world. A banal statement, but one essentially indisputable. It changed how we understand time, space, personal…
Protection of Post-War Architectural Heritage in the Czech Republic
Rostislav Švácha
The first modernist buildings in the Czech Republic received landmark status as early as the 1960s. Theoretical arguments in favour…
The Path of Experiment. Experimental Apartment Construction During the 1960s and SIAL
Eva Novotná
Massive apartment construction in the form of prefabricated tower blocks was never a major part of the interests of architects…
What is Specific in the Research of Architecture?
Irena Fialová
Very few of the results of academic architectural research are actually used in practice. Architecture research is therefore a regular…
The Mythology of the Concept of Design Synopsis
Robert Špaček
The text is a reaction to the excessively broad conception of the topic encapsulated in the slogan “everything is design…
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The Spa Chapel in Vyhne an Early Work of Ladislav Hudec
Maroš Semančík
The forested surroundings of the tiny spa town of Vyhne hide among themselves a small, almost unassuming chapel, constructed shortly…
Under Threat: The Metastadt Building
Florian Breipohl, Lars Scharnholz
Until recently the Metastadt building system was considered among the failed architectural ideas of the 20th century. This utopian architectural…
