Cite this article Horňák, J. (2026) ‘Plasticity of public space: Framework for spontaneous user-driven transformation’, Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 31(1), pp. 31-37. https://www.doi.org/10.2478/alfa-2026-0005 SUMMARY Contemporary public spaces are increasingly defined by institutional over-regulation and digital displacement. Modern urban environments are often “pre-scripted,” leaving little room for spontaneous human intervention. […]
Cite this article Legény, J. (2025) ‘Editorial’, Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 30(1), pp. 1-4. https://www.doi.org/10.2478/alfa-2025-0001 Dear Readers, Dear Editorial Board Members, Factum est consilium—the decision has been made! I am addressing you as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU (ALFA […]
Cite this article Šimkovičová, B., Smatanová, K. (2023) ‘Mental health as determining factor of urban district’s character: Case study Bratislava – the Pentagon’, Architecture Papers of the Faculty of Architecture and Design STU, 28(3), pp. 28-35. https://www.doi.org/10.2478/alfa-2023-0017 SUMMARY The topic of mental health is on the fringe of the interest of architects and urban […]
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SUMMARY Study of urban stability shows that the special concern given to the problems of the commerce in urban structures is derived from the dominance of this functional element in the system of facilities and from its ability to put together economical, urbanising and social functions. That all enables to influence urban stability to a […]
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 The creative process of actualisation of urban structure is to a great extent influenced by objectively acting urbanisation regularities. The paper characterises some of the transformation and interaction regularities, their creative use is determined by the quality of the interference to the changing city structure. The transformational regularities of intensification, integration, homogenization etc. are […]
SUMMARY When considering the future direction of the FA STU and thus the education of the town and country planners in Slovakia, we cannot do without a view on European and world development. It is therefore inevitable to take into account the findings of analyses done by the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). […]
SUMMARY To achieve a higher dimension of the university studies, while reaching a modern and compatible branch of study, it must be reflected in the educational programmes. The innovative process of town and country planning is determined by new socio-economic conditions. A wider context of housing development issues is required from ISCED-UNESCO with the concept […]