Tag: university campus

Form and its Reception in Architecture. On the Example of the Agricultural University Campus in Nitra

Issue: 2015, Volume 49, No. 1 - 2

The title of this paper refers to the polarity between formalism and reception aesthetics, emerging in the 1960s yet implicitly formulated much sooner, for example in Czech and Slovak structuralism. The aim of this text is to demonstrate how this polarity shaped the contextual background of architectural thinking in the second half of the 20th […]

Creative Transformations: the Campus Paradigm

Issue: 2020, Volume 54, No. 1 - 2

Large swaths of land on the fringe of metropolis are now undergoing transformation into a landscape of big boxes devoted to storage, logistics, or manufacture. On the other hand, close to specific cities, such as Paris or Moscow, strengthening support of the innovation economy has fueled the rise of research and development sites. Often simply […]