SUMMARY Plants as the elements of dual nature, which involves the natural (particularly biological) and socio-cultural aspects, are specific composition elements in the historical urban environment. These elements bring to the urban environment dynamics via its continual changing, growth and development, as an essential feature of every living being. In many cases they play significant […]

SUMMARY Nowadays, little attention is paid to the issue of aluminium smelters in the field of industrial heritage protection. This study refers to changes in settlement structures that were associated with the development of industry. Aluminium plants were selected because of their rapid development and massive spread around the world within a century, and at […]

SUMMARY The article provides a sociological insight into the city and its everyday life. As architects and town planners we create a space, the city itself. Lewis Mumford has already stressed that the city and its transformation in time cannot be defined by a simple formula. It is necessary to perceive this complex “organism” and […]

Ing. arch. Petr Dýr, PhD. Institute of Architecture Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic dyr.p@fce.vutbr.cz Mgr. art. Paulína Ebringerová Faculty of Architecture STU, Bratislava, Slovakia paulina.ebringerova@stuba.sk PhDr. Ľudovít Hallon, CSc. Institute of History Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia ludovit.hallon@savba.sk prof. Dr. Ing. arch. Henrieta Moravčíková Institute of Construction and Architecture […]