Regarding to monument protection in Slovakia, the period of World War II has yet to receive the attention it deserves. For this reason and others, the activities of the Hungarian Monument Commission in the southern regions of the country are virtually unknown and undocumented. Drawing upon contemporary literature and archival materials, this text outlines possibilities […]
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From a Shopping Street to a “Catering” Space: The Change of the Main Street of Košice 1995–2024
A fundamental challenge for historic urban centres in larger cities is the need for centuries-old architectural structures to perform radically different functions than when they were built. Residential and farming functions have declined, even disappeared, to be replaced by shops and services. Yet structural change in the urban landscape can be significant even within a […]
The Architectural Work as a Monument before the Death of Its Author
The present study examines a situation in which a work of architecture becomes a listed monument during the productive career of its author. Such instances are few but have begun to occur with greater frequency, considering the increasingly brief time between the completion of the work and its legal protection. The case study analysed is […]
The Beauty of the New Modern Life and Technology The Survival of Socialist Architecture in the Budapest City Centre
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2020, Volume 54, No. 3 - 4
Based on the narrowing lists of three Budapest architectural guides (1980, 1997, 2014) of buildings completed 1945-1990, the paper intends to discover the reasons for their survival, changes or demolishing. It concentrates on the story of three office buildings built after 1960. The analysis proves that the two demolished buildings not only lost their tangible […]