2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4
Scientific studies
Unitas and Nová Doba: A (Forgotten) Contribution to Politically Engaged Theories of Housing
Henrieta Moravčíková
The present study analyses the circumstances of the construction, and the urban, architectural and structural qualities of the Bratislava residential…
From ‘Grand Ensemble’ to Architectural Heritage, from Concentration Camp to Memorial
Pieter Uyttenhove
The mass housing project of the Cité de la Muette in Drancy, near Paris This article deals with the pre-war…
Planning of Standardized Housing Types in Hungary in 1948 – 1960
Márta Branczik
A special area of post-1945 mass housing was the type-planning of homes, especially in socialist countries where the compulsory use…
“An Apartment with all Conveniences” was no Panacea
Mart Kalm
Mass housing and the Alternatives in the Soviet Period in Tallinn The story of Soviet mass housing is generally well…
On Large-Scale Housing in Denmark
Bitten Larsen, Poul Sverrild
Living and construction, a historical background for large-scale housing in Denmark Between the wars, Copenhagen was strongly affected by the…
The Residence as a Decisive Factor: Modern Housing in the Central Zone of new Belgrad
Ljiljana Blagojević
The article presents, documents, and analyzes the housing mega-blocks in the centre of New Belgrade (Serbia). Constructed in the socialist…
Architecture as a Pedagogical Object: What to preserve of the Przyczółek Grochowski Housing Estate by Oskar & Zofia Hansen in Warsaw?
Łukasz Stanek, Aleksandra Kędziorek
In 1990 a newsreel which documented the emergence of new types of services arising after the fall of socialism in…
Cumbernauld New Town: Reception & Heritage Legacy
Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters
Cumbernauld New Town, widely regarded as the most ambitious of the second generation of planned New Towns in the UK,…
Czech Paneláks are Disappearing, but the Housing Estates Remain
Kimberly Elman Zarecor, Eva Špačková
A common lament about the legacy of communism in Europe is the damage that it did to the built environment.…
Three Tenses: Mass-Housing in Contemporary Art
Carmen Popescu
Art Looks at Mass-housing Mass-housing has become an oft-employed motif in the art of the last decades: photographs, videos, installations,…
Reviews
Documenting Mass Housing in a Socialist City
Miles Glendinning
Henrieta Moravčíková, Mária Topolčanská, Peter Szalay, Matúš Dulla, Soňa Ščepánová, Slávka Toscherová, Katarína HaberlandováBratislava, atlas sídlisk. Bratislava, Atlas of Mass…
