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 […]
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Osmosis or Propaganda? Western Urbanism in Czechoslovak Architectural Press (1945 – 1960)
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 […]
Teorie a realita českého a slovenského urbanismu a územního plánování od roku 1945
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 […]
A Melange of Resolution
kali- / ARCH- / FI-FO / TYPO.František Kalivoda (1913–1971):vize a návraty modernismu,2023Chatrný, Jindřich and Svobodová, Markéta (eds.) Brno: Brno City Museum and the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of SciencesISBN 978-80-86549-32-3