After the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the conservative wing of the Communist Party assumed power and initiated the process of political and social normalization. As its influence and authority expanded, the Party faced a shortage of administrative facilities; hence the 1970s and 1980s became a golden age for the specific architectural typology of […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Teorie a realita českého a slovenského urbanismu a územního plánování od roku 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 […]
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