(Vý)stavoprojekt Trnava,Trenčín, Piešťany,2023Tóthová, Lucia Trenčín: Projekt Hlava V/ Catch VISBN: 978-80-974793-0-5
Tag: post-war modernism
Preservation Issues of Architecture from the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Late Modernist architectural works are confronted with an ambivalent situation between heritage acknowledgement and physical destruction. The text aims to explain the growing interest in their protection as a natural evolution of monument preservation, yet simultaneously questions the effectiveness of current procedures regarding the specifics of the given architecture. The Mäusebunker case study illustrates an […]
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 […]
Reception and Architectural Interpretation: The Television Tower and Hotel Ještěd and The Prague-Žižkov Television Tower
Issue:
2015, Volume 49, No. 1 - 2
The paper focuses on the problem of the public or architectural interpretation and reception of two extraordinary buildings: the combined hotel and television tower on Mt. Ještěd near Liberec and the Žižkov Television Tower in Prague. The paper is divided into three chapters: 1) Architecture and the Historic Context, 2) Architecture and the Topological (Landscape […]