SUMMARY Social care and town planning are different activities but they have common items and they can enrich each other. The article is dealing with these common items from the architect’s viewpoint. Town planning is a social service for the society, a few years ago fully under state control. But a social state is an […]

SUMMARY An architect as a town planner should carry out their work for the benefit of applying architecture in society – mainly in towns and villages. Education concerning this mission should include something from the original sense of architecture, thus from times of antique, the middle ages and new ages. The school of those times […]

SUMMARY The author describes a situation when a respected architect and university professor Vladimír Karfík involuntarily left the Faculty of Architecture in Bratislava and began working in an urbanistic studio of a state project organisation with some of his students spanning several generations as one of them. In those ten years that he worked there, […]