The complex of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) is the outcome of complicated developments in the city structure, in which the most valuable urban advantage is its position on the Danube embankment and in the city centre. From námestie Ľudovíta Štúra up to Riečná ulica, the entire block is a conglomeration of widely varying historic […]
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Form and its Reception in Architecture. On the Example of the Agricultural University Campus in Nitra
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 […]
Phenomenon Vladimír Dedeček
Monika Mitášová Vladimir Dedeček: Interpretácie architektonického diela 2017, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria. 842 s. ISBN: 978-80-8059-198-4 Monika Mitášová (ed .) Vladimir Dedeček: stávanie sa architektom 2017, Bratislava: Slovenská národná galéria. 354 p. ISBN: 978-80-8059-200-4
The Interpretation of Architecture as a Methodological Problem
In this essay we hope to address a few methodological issues in interpreting a work of architecture that have gradually shown themselves to be problematic and at the same time productive. If we accept interpretation as one possible approach to an architectural work, then the fundamental issue of interpretation becomes the question of the sense […]