The Athenaeum is an architectural genre adopted in the wake of Romania’s extensive and accelerated processes of modernization at the end of the 19th century. Like many other civilizational forms of the West, it was introduced to span the developmental gap after the nation’s long Ottoman rule and emphasize the new direction towards humanistic values […]
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Protection of Post-War Architectural Heritage in the Czech Republic
Issue:
2011, Volume 45, No. 1 - 2
The first modernist buildings in the Czech Republic received landmark status as early as the 1960s. Theoretical arguments in favour of protection of such relatively recent structures were first formulated in the volume Ochrana památek moderní architektury [Protection of Landmarks of Modern Architecture] published in 1970 by the Brno art historians Václav Richter and Zdeněk […]