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 […]
Tag: Stavoprojekt
The Ambition for Centralized Control
The article explores the formative years (1948–1953) of Stavoprojekt, the largest state design institution in state-socialist Czechoslovakia. As part of an ongoing research project, it traces organizational changes using the previously inaccessible archive of the Stavoprojekt Directorate, now held in the National Archives of the Czech Republic. The research is based mainly on the analysis […]
Back to Stavoprojekt Studios
(Vý)stavoprojekt Trnava,Trenčín, Piešťany,2023Tóthová, Lucia Trenčín: Projekt Hlava V/ Catch VISBN: 978-80-974793-0-5
Architectural Competition Designs and the Construction of the International Hotels by Stavoprojekt Brno
Issue:
2022, Volume 56, Number 1‒2
The article focuses on the state design organization Stavoprojekt and its involvement in international architectural competitions for hotels in Czechoslovakia mainly in the 1960s. The research draws upon newly discovered archival materials, among them hotel plans for the cities of Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary and Prague. Although Stavoprojekt and its branch in Brno are known […]