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The use of trees in the urban environment By Katarína Gécová It is the aim of any society to create optimal housing and living conditions for its inhabitants. Fast growth and development of settlements and urbanization in general resulted in numerous factors that have negative impacts on our environment. This process leads to the elimination […]

The new Sans Souci in Iliašovce: Forgotten landscape By Katarína Kristiánová In looking at landscapes we perceive their present state first of all. However, some facts in the memory of landscapes are not visible, or are not obvious at the first glance. That is the case of the forgotten landscape – French Baroque-Rococo garden in […]

Late Modernism in the Slovak Spa Localities Mgr. art. Martin Zaiček, PhD. Slovakia is a small-size country rich in natural healing water springs. These springs are an important predisposition for the spa development. But natural resources themselves cannot provide spa services. For providing of the therapy, there is needed a complex of balneology and sanatoriums, which all […]

Architects Franz Wimmer and Endre Szönyi[1] had a joint architecture studio in Bratislava and both were members of the Pressburger Kunstverein. Aficionados of the inter-ware architecture can certainly come up with some works created by these two men, although their architectural work is not what one would call pure Modernism. The building of Central Passage […]

SUMMARY One of the first people to address urban areas was Leonardo da Vinci with his manuscript “La città ideale”. When he learnt that the population of Milan had reached 50,000 in 1486, he became the first urbanist to design a plan for a modern and rationally-organized town[1] which also included a list of factors […]

SUMMARY Architecture significantly influences health and well-being of humans because they spend most of their time inside. Poorly designed buildings may cause their users physical and mental discomfort which can lead to various diseases. Recent architectural studies as to how architectural composition affects humans were conducted on already completed buildings. Thanks to the technological progress […]