Tag: 20th century

Social Housing of 1950s in Tlemcen (Algeria): An Architectural View

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

The French administration had manifested its interest for social housing since the centenary of the French invasion in Algeria, in 1930, this period was characterized by the strong demographic growth and the rural exodus towards urban centers, and it intensified in the 1950s. It aimed to house both European and Muslim citizens, adopting different housing […]

The New Bratislava of Josef Marek

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 3 - 4

The study represents the urban-planning work of the relatively unknown Moravian-born architect Josef Marek, a pupil of Jan Kotěra and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his years in Slovakia after 1919 up until the end of the 1950s, Marek created an entire series of urban plans, though the form […]

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