Innovations in architecture and the impact of architects´ mobility on their application: the case of the new building of the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava by Katarína Haberlandová, Laura Krišteková

“…Later, the conditions of the architectural competition for the building (1979) were formed, which made extremely high demands on the architects, because the main goal was to create an innovative architecture not only from the formal, but also a technological point of view. …”
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Antonín Goller, Stephan Tragl, Johann Koch: Méně známí architekti ve službách severočeské a východočeské šlechty ve druhé polovině 19. století by Lucie Neméthová

“…In the second half of the 19th century, many architects worked for noble members of the house of Morzin and subsequently the house of Czernin-Morzin in Vrchlabí and other mansions in North Bohemia. …”
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Juhani Pallasmaa ‘TALKS’ with Students by Aurosa Alison, Juhani Pallasmaa

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Pearls Before Swine by Michał Murawski

“… This edited and abridged transcript of a long interview with Denis Shibanov, the architect of DAU, conducted by anthropologist of architecture Michał Murawski, expands on numerous themes pertinent to the DAU project and the context in which it was envisioned and created: the differing attitude to the Soviet past (and its material, affective and ideological legacies) as well as the post-Soviet present held by Shibanov and Khrzhanovskiy; the presence of allusions to the female anatomy in the set design of DAU, and their connection to the fraught approach to gender (and to gender politics) pervading the project; and the relationship between determinism and chance in the creative process and in historical development. …”
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The practice of music in Rajhrad monastery in the first half of the 18th century by Pavel Žůrek

“…These activities reached their climax under provost Anton Pirmus (1676–1744) in an attempt to realise an ambitious project made by famous architect Johann Santini Aichl of rebuilding the monastery complex and monastery church. …”
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Scénografie v počátcích Divadla D by Pavlína Vojtová

“…The study is focused on work and cooperation of five young stage designers/architects with director E. F. Burian in the avant-garde theatre of Divadlo D in its beginnings in early 1930s, namely César Grimmich, Miroslav Kouřil, Jiří Novotný, Karel Poličanský, and Josef Raban, and then mainly the trio KNR. …”
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The large Late Period shaft tombs at Abusir – continuity and change (a case study) by Ladislav Bareš

“…The large shaft tombs at Abusir have apparently been constructed during a rather short period of time (cer tainly not exceeding one generation) and, most probably, by one and the same group of architects, workmen and artists. According to the present knowledge, moreover, their owners seem to have been related to each other in some or other way. …”
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"Ładne to miasto jest!" Prolegomena do badań nad estetyką miasta by Kinga Czerwińska

“… The issues of aesthetic values of city space have so far been the interest of urbanists, architects or aestheticians and rarely ethnologies despite the fact that the discipline has been dealing with the subject matter of the city and urbanness for years. …”
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Problem miejskiego centrum w obliczu dynamicznych przemian urbanistycznych i kulturowych — na przykładzie Bielska-Białej by Grzegorz Błahut

“…An existing divergence can be eradicated by the users of these spaces not only mentally, but also the architects and urbanists thanks to a further development of the new centre in a direction of the Old Town in Bielsko, which is indicated by the already defined projects. …”
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