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 To define the profile of a graduate is a continually pressing problem, which is never settled. A school of architecture should not produce a final product similar to a professional architect but educate in an open way and offer a wide range of information on methodics, legislation, materials, construction and history, and develop artistic […]

SUMMARY A masterpiece of architecture originates step by step primarily by the architect’s design and then by manual work. Nowadays designed architecture is not only a coordinated work, joining talent with willingness and skills. It is also a legal contract in relation to the investor and supplier. The graduates of the FA STU should be […]

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 Education in liberal arts at the FA STU does not mean just changing the name and applying quantitative indicators of European standards in liberal arts. This nearly leads to cancelling of liberal arts. Thus it is best to get liberal arts into the base of the profession of an architect. However, this requires courage […]

SUMMARY According to the view of the author of this paper, Prof. Belluš based his architectural creation on the relationship of the detail and the unit in his works, where both parts of architecture interfere and are mutually determined. It is inevitable to access Beluš’s detail as a part of the unit and Belluš’s concept […]

SUMMARY The author of this paper introduces the architect Belluš as a designer of sacral architecture. It is a difficult task to create sacral architecture. High quality sacral architecture can only be designed by a person with religious education and sensitivity. Prof. Belluš took for the first time part in the competition to build a […]