Tag: apartment

The Path of Experiment. Experimental Apartment Construction During the 1960s and SIAL

Issue: 2011, Volume 45, No. 1 - 2

Massive apartment construction in the form of prefabricated tower blocks was never a major part of the interests of architects in the studio SIAL (Sdružení inženýrů a architektů Liberce – Alliance of Engineers and Architects in Liberec). Indeed, quite the opposite: under the leadership of Karel Hubáček, these architects founded their independent atelier in the […]

“An Apartment with all Conveniences” was no Panacea

Issue: 2012, Volume 46, No. 3 - 4

Mass housing and the Alternatives in the Soviet Period in Tallinn The story of Soviet mass housing is generally well known – including Khrushchev’s enthusiasm for the establishment of industrial building practices in the second half of the 1950s, the striking contrast between the prefabricated housing developments and earlier academic Stalinist buildings, and the uniformity […]