2020, Volume 54, No. 3 - 4
Scientific studies
Housing Production and Energy Use in Greece Insights from History and New Social Challenges
Evangelia Chatzikonstantinou, Fereniki Vatavali
The outbreak of the Greek debt crisis in 2010 sparked considerable discussion on domestic energy consumption in Greece. In combination…
Sarajevo Memories – the City of Sublime Disorder
Emina Zejnilović, Erna Husukić
The development of cities as well as collective memory is not a linear process, but one strongly related to the…
Environmental Ideas Coopted: ARARAT Exhibition, Stockholm, 1976
Andrea Gimeno Sánchez
On 2 April 1976, the ARARAT exhibition opened at the main museum of contemporary art in Stockholm, the Moderna Museet.…
The Beauty of the New Modern Life and Technology The Survival of Socialist Architecture in the Budapest City Centre
Mariann Simon, Sarah Ben Salem
Based on the narrowing lists of three Budapest architectural guides (1980, 1997, 2014) of buildings completed 1945-1990, the paper intends…
The Interpretation of Architecture as a Methodological Problem
Monika Mitášová, Marian Zervan
In this essay we hope to address a few methodological issues in interpreting a work of architecture that have gradually…
The Archi-Tectonics of the INTEGRO Long-Span Skeletal System. The Concept of an Open Architectural Form Represented by the Series of Prior Department Store
Matúš Bišťan
The long-span concrete prefabricated skeletal system ŠPÚO-ZIPP was originally intended for the construction of Prior department stores in Slovakia, and…
Urbanization Outside the City Interwar Housing in the Bratislava Suburb Kramáre
Eva Borecká
The work is devoted to the period of the urbanization and expansion of the city of Bratislava in the direction…
Forum
The Influence of Building Development on the Location and Form of the Centers of Residential Communities – an Evaluation Using Space Syntax
Jan Maňas
This paper examines the spatial impacts of suburbanization and its consequences in communities that were often the subject of sociological…
Moi et LeC: Breathing Walls in the Architectural Performance of a City’s Metabolism
Marie Davidová
The article presents a discussion on cities’ metabolisms and bioregions, specifically their habitable and edible landscapes for cross-species co-living. Paper…
Reviews
Rewriting the History of Shaping Landscapes in the Global South: The Role of Eastern European Professionals
Katarína Smatanová
STANEK, ŁUKASZ: ARCHITECTURE IN GLOBAL SOCIALISM. EASTERN EUROPE, WEST AFRICA, AND THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE COLD WAR, 2020, Princeton…
(Un)treated architecture
Mária Novotná
MARTIN ZAJIČEK, ANDREA KALINOVÁ, PETRA HLAVÁČKOVÁ (EDS.), ARCHITEKTÚRA STAROSTLIVOSTI SLOVENSKÉ KÚPELE V DRUHEJ POLOVICI 20. STOROČIA 2019, Bratislava: Archimera. 344…
Transformation of the Ideas of Home
Gabriela Smetanová
VÍTĚZSLAV SOMMER, MATĚJ SPURNÝ A JAROMÍR MRŇKA: ŘÍDIT SOCIALISMUS JAKO FIRMU TECHNOKRATICKÉ VLÁDNUTÍ V ČESKOSLOVENSKU, 1956 – 1989, 2019, Praha:…
