2019, Volume 53, No. 1 – 2

2019, Volume 53, No. 1 - 2

Scientific studies

When Architecture Is Transcendence: Vital Poetry and Social Intervention

Ana Tostões
Lina Bo Bardi (1914 – 1992) was a woman architect working in a man’s world. Italian by birth and training,…

Sarajevo´s Modernist Olympic Ruins – A Future for the Vanishing Past?

Bojana Bojanic, Sonja Ifko
In 1984 the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) organized the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo. It was a time…

Skopje’s Transitions and the City’s Struggle to Preserve Collective Memories

Velika Ivkovska, Luca Orlandi
Skopje underwent many changes to its urban environment, caused by different factors both human and natural. Due to these impacts…

White, Everything White? Josef Frank’s Villa Beer in Vienna and Its Materiality in the Context of the Discourse on ‘White Cubes’

Ivo Hammer, Robert Linke
A recent conservation-science study of the materials used in the construction of Josef Frank’s main work, the Villa Beer (1930)…

Tracking Contemporary Streetscape Transformation Processes – Two Case Studies from Slovenia

Peter Šenk, Kaja Pogačar
This paper examines the transformation processes of city streets that have until recently been characterised by intense motor traffic, but…

Bohuslav Fuchs’s “New Zoning”

Jan Dostalík
This article deals with a remarkable yet little-explored topic in the history of Czech urban and regional planning: the work…

The Greater Bratislava of Architects Alois Balán and Jiří Grossmann

Soňa Ščepánová
The declaration of Bratislava as Slovakia’s capitol opened a new chapter in its urban development. In reflecting on the new…

Forum

Adaptive Reuse of Zagreb Tobacco Factory Buildings in the Context of Contemporary Urban Regeneration

Zrinka Barišić Marenić, Ivan Vukojević
This paper focuses on the paradoxical failure of the contemporary city to realize the regeneration of an industrial building for…

Reviews

Dual-Character Models of the Transition: Deductive and Inductive Perspectives on Post-socialist Urban Development

Domonkos Wettstein
DANIEL KISSMODELING POST-SOCIALIST URBANIZATION / THE CASE OF BUDAPEST2019, Birkhäuser, Basel, 208 p.ISBN: 978-3-0356-1649-1

Writing Architects

Monika Bočková
EUROAMERICKÉ ARCHITEKTONICKÉ MYŠLENÍ 1936 – 2011ROSTISLAV ŠVÁCHA, MILENA SRŠŇOVÁ, JANA TICHÁ2019, Praha: Zlatý řez. 720 s.ISBN: 978-80-88033-03-5

When Tradition Remains a Strong Theme of Creation

Jana Gregorová
EVA BORECKÁTRADIČNÁ MODERNA NA SLOVENSKU. ARCHITEKTI FRANZ WIMMER & ENDRE SZÖNYI / TRADITIONALISM IN THE MODERN MOVEMENT IN SLOVAKIA.ARCHITECTS FRANZ…

CLEAR, NEVERTHELESS UNIQUE SANDALO

Katarína Haberlandová
VIZIE MODERNOSTI, RUDOLF SANDALO (1899 – 1980)Autori Výstavy: Jindřich Chatrn7, Dagmar Černoušková, realizácia: Tomáš Hollý, Jindřich Chatrný, Ivan Jakubovský, Jiři…