Tag: public space

Continuation of a Planning Tradition: The Social Agenda of the ‘Functional City’

Issue: 2013, Volume 47, No. 3 - 4

The Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM) from 1928 to 1959 was an unconventional working group and a complex laboratory of progressive ideas for the design of the city. Over three decades, CIAM united architects, town planners, artists, historians, sociologists and journalists. Its writings on the ‘Functional City’ in particular were considered the core of modern […]

Revitalisation of the Roof Terraces of the Slovak Radio Building: A Contribution to the Improvement of its Image

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 1 - 2

Since its completion, the Slovak Radio Building has been struggling with notable unpopularity; however, the situation is now changing. Responsibility for this shift has been due to the actions of Slovak Radio and Television (RTVS). In cooperation with the Faculty of Architecture of the Slovak Technical University (STU) and the Department of Architecture at ÚSTARCH […]

Thansformation of an Inner City in the Postsocialist Period, Case Study Holešovice, Prague

Issue: 2015, Volume 49, No. 3 - 4

The text addresses the issue of the spatial arrangement of new office and residential complexes built in the inner part of Prague during the post-socialist time. After 1990, the transformation of the Eastern bloc state of Czechoslovakia into the present Czech Republic led to the implementation of major economic and social changes, as reflected in […]