Tag: Czechoslovakia

Zdeněk Řihák’s Hotel Buildings and the State Project Institute of Trade Brno

Issue: 2021, Volume 55, No. 1 - 2

The text briefly describes the operation of one of the state planning establishments for hotel construction in Czechoslovakia from 1960 to 1990, placing the architectural work of SPITB employee Zdeněk Řihák within the global context of that time. The Czechoslovak hotel production and the work of Zdeňek Řihák is analysed on for case studies: Hotel […]

Lotte Stam-Beese (1903 – 1988) From Entwurfsarchitektin to Urban-planning Architect

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

The paper takes a closer look at the career of the Silesian-born urban-planning architect Lotte Stam-Beese. This female architect became famous not only in the Netherlands, but also in the circles associated with CIAM, for her designs for modern post-war housing districts in the city of Rotterdam. An initial basis for Stam-Beese’s career was laid […]

Osmosis or Propaganda? Western Urbanism in Czechoslovak Architectural Press (1945 – 1960)

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 3 - 4

The article investigates the representation of Western (West-European and Amer¬ican) urban planning in the professional architectural press in Czechoslovakia during the turbulent period of the early years of the communist regime in 1945 – 1960. Focusing on media discourse, the study discusses the transfer of architectural and urban design concepts within postwar Europe and ques¬tions […]

Theory and Reality of Czech and Slovak Urban and Spatial Planning since 1945

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 3 - 4

Architektúra & urbanizmus, as a journal published quarterly by a scholarly institution and declaratively focused on the theory of architecture, urban design and human environments, has represented from its very outset a well-anchored space for the discussion of contemporary architecture. In contrast to the monthly publications like the Slovak journal Projekt or its Czech counterpart […]