Tag: communism

Architectural Competition Designs and the Construction of the International Hotels by Stavoprojekt Brno

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 1‒2

The article focuses on the state design organization Stavoprojekt and its involvement in international architectural competitions for hotels in Czechoslovakia mainly in the 1960s. The research draws upon newly discovered archival materials, among them hotel plans for the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary and Prague. Although Stavoprojekt and its branch in Brno are known […]

Three Tenses: Mass-Housing in Contemporary Art

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

Art Looks at Mass-housing Mass-housing has become an oft-employed motif in the art of the last decades: photographs, videos, installations, movies, and literature have all made a significant place for the urbanity represented by large prefabricated housing blocks. Revealed or transfigured through the artistic gaze, mass-housing conveys a series of questions about politics, society and, […]

Problematic Aspects in the Historiography of Romanian Architecture

Issue: 2013, Volume 47, No. 1 - 2

“All [of these countries] seem to be governed by the same principle of the identity crisis, of the conflictive absorption of contradictory cultural waves, of a provincial model, low-keyed, but haunted by failure and lack of perspective. All seem to struggle between the majoritarian indifference and the elite’s schizophrenia, all seem to have something in […]