2023, Volume 57, Number 1 – 2
Scientific studies
“For Us, It Was a New and Difficult Task”: Czechoslovak Embassy Buildings in the 1918–1939 Period and the Construction of State Representation
Petr Klíma
After 1918, the cultural construction of Czechoslovak identity and the search for forms of state representation in architecture also imprinted…
Architecting Nature: The Pastoral Genre in Art Museum Design
Meri Batakoja, Karin Šerman
How often do we get conscious of the fact that the function of art in general, and in relation to…
Analyzing contemporary image of the Olympic city Sarajevo: Modalities, Meanings and Negotiations
Erna Husukić, Emina Zejnilović
This work examines the visual identity of the city of Sarajevo, the host city of the XIV Winter Olympic Games…
From Agricultural Village to Socialist Industrial Town
Romana Hajduková, Alžbeta Sopirová
Town of Strážske has gained recent attention because of heavy contamination with PCBs produced in Chemko Strážske, which was established…
Historical Evolution and Contemporary Examples of Hungarian Social Housing
Dávid Szabó
There is a lack of a housing system based on common social responsibility in Hungary. There were attempts to create…
Rusovce Manor House and Its Neo-Gothic Rebuilding. New Findings from Artistic and Archival Materials
Katarína Beňová
The theme of the study is the manor house in Rusovce, near Bratislava, built in the neo-Gothic style, designed by…
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From Kraus to Orbis: The Two Window Designs of Armin Kraus between Vision and Practicality
Alexander Kuric
In the late 1920s, the Bratislava company of the metalsmith Armin Kraus produced an intriguing window design. Unique for its…
The Concept of Homage in VAL’s E-temen-an-ki Project
Gabriela Smetanová
The text is devoted to one of the eight projects of the Slovak art-architectural group VAL, active in the 1970s…
Architecture Without Architects. Informal Redevelopment of Late-Modern Prefabricated Housing in Tbilisi, Georgia
Daniela Majzlanová
Unplanned architecture was a phenomenon that occurred in the former Eastern Bloc Countries, particularly in Georgia, Armenia, and Ukraine, mainly…
Who Formed the Architectural Appearance of Trnava in the Years 1918 – 1945?
Linda Osyková
The appearance of modern Trnava is the joint work of many important Czech, Moravian, and Slovak architects. The building of…
