Tag: 20th century

When the Party Builds: The Origins and Forms of the Secretariat Buildings of the Communist Party of Slovakia during the Normalisation Period

Issue: 2026, Volume 60, Number 1 – 2

This paper examines the headquarters buildings of the Communist Party of Slovakia as a distinct type of administrative structure developed during the late socialist period, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on archival sources and fieldwork, the paper situates the Party secretariat buildings within the broader system of centrally planned investment construction and examines […]

Neplánované mesto: moderné urbanistické tradičnej mestskej štruktúre

Issue: 2015, Volume 49, No. 1 - 2

In our thinking about the city and about city regulations, land-use and/or spatial planning, several independent lines of argument have emerged. One of them is the artistic-compositional stance, derived from the traditional central principle of architectonic creation, focusing on the production of an aesthetically pleasing functional-structural whole. This result has the character of an inclusive […]

Industrial Heritage Utilization

Issue: 2017, Volume 51, No. 1 - 2

A specific modernist building typology, namely the transformer stations that arose with the introduction and spread of electric power usage in the first half of the 20th century, forms the topic for examination in this paper from the architectural and urban-planning points of view. In addition to providing research on this developing period in Budapest, […]

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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