2017, Volume 51, No. 1 – 2

2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

Scientific studies

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

Lucie Doleželová, Milan Macoun
The article focuses on the transformation of organization of French large scale projects under the progresive liberalization of urban development…

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

Kornélia Kissfazekas
Approaches towards town centres in various eras are highly revealing of the contemporary way of thinking and the pervasive ideas…

Red or Blue? The Start of Modern Planning in Bratislava

Henrieta Moravčíková, Éva Lovra, Laura Pastoreková
This study presents the history of modern urban planning in Bratislava (then Pozsony/Pressburg) at the turn of the 19th and…

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

Petar Cigić, Ljiljana Blagojević
Focusing on the architecture and ambience of the low-rise high-density single-family housing estate Petlovo Brdo in Belgrade, Serbia (1967 –…

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

Carsten Hermann
Whilst Scotland’s postwar urban planning and mass housing are well documented, the historiography of mid-20th century architecture consists otherwise of…

Industrial Heritage Utilization

Ester Baku, Ágnes Gyetvainé Balogh, Martin Pilsitz, Adrienn Lepel
A specific modernist building typology, namely the transformer stations that arose with the introduction and spread of electric power usage…

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

Hanneke Oosterhof
The paper takes a closer look at the career of the Silesian-born urban-planning architect Lotte Stam-Beese. This female architect became…

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The Addition to the Kežmarok State Boys’ School and Commercial Academy

Maroš Semančík
An extensive process of school building at the turn of the 19th and 20th century occurred in tandem with the…

Reviews

Assigned to architecture

Nina Bartošová
KLÍMA , PETR (ed.): RŮŽENA ŽERTOVÁ: ARCHITEKTKA DOMŮ I VĚCÍ Praha, Vysoká škola umělecko-průmyslová v Praze 2016. 280 p. ISBN…

Industrial heritage (of Bratislava) through various views

Martin Dubiny
NINA BARTOŠOVÁ, KATARÍNA HABERLANDOVÁ: INDUSTRIÁL OČAMI ODBORNÍKOV/PAMÄTNÍKOV Teória a metodológia ochrany priemyselného dedičstva v kontexte BratislavyBratislava, Vydavateľstvo STU 2016. 128…

Our book of Bauhaus

Peter Szalay
MARKÉTA SVOBODOVÁ BAUHAUS A ČESKOSLOVENSKO 1919 - 1938 STUDENTI / KONCEPTY / KONTAKTY Praha, Kant 2016. 256 p. ISBN 978-80-7437-224-7