SUMMARY During last 50 years have the light buildings reached a great variety of application possibilities, from high – rise buildings to glass buildings, from swiming pools to stadium roofi ngs, from Reichstags covering to Cargolifter – assembly hall for airship construction, the greatest world´s construction hall built without support. Short terms of construction and […]

SUMMARY Several years ago I collaborated on formulating the Ethical code of the Slovak chamber of architects. At that time, I did not think that this work on the ideological superstructure of the code, and dealing with the behaviour of architects would continue up until now, and lead to this elaboration of the subject called […]

SUMMARY This article addresses an issue of political situation in the South Caucasian region within the past  two decades and how it influenced the image of the architecture in Georgia. The article  also examines Georgian architecture through selected buildings of late modernist architecture as well as through the phenomenon of 90’s architectural transformation locally known […]

SUMMARY Initial impulse for this text was long-term observation and conviction, that man-made part of our environment is constantly losing its identity. The newly built structures are just very average, lacking any ambition to experiment. The old structures are disappearing and if they are not demolished, they are neglected and forgotten. Koolhaas’s text Generic City, […]

SUMMARY The article is part of the PhD thesis Architecture in Movement / Movement in Architecture which analyses the presence of the term ‘movement’ in the architectural theory and practice, as well as in architectural history. We are especially interested in movement as process and its presence in Slovak architecture. In this article we focused on movement as process […]

SUMMARY Since the second half of the 20th century, theatre has started using rather different forms of its expression tools. Mainly in German theatre society, critics have started to use the term that refers to this new practice as “Regietheater“(director ́s theatre). These new directing tendencies in drama interpretation led to reinterpretation of plays by […]