Tag: interwar architecture

Housing Cooperatives in Slovakia 1918 – 1969: the Case of Avion

Issue: 2022, Volume 56, Number 3-4

Housing represented a field of interest that gradually acquired wider significance within the framework of social policy in the interwar Czechoslovak Republic. While until the creation of the independent state in 1918, discussions on social housing focused primarily on the working class, the rise of a new middle class in the interwar years created the […]

Depiction of the “Industrial World” in the Architecture of Interwar Prague

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 1 - 2

The prominent German conservationist Axel Föhl, whose work focuses on industrial heritage, organized a section at the XIV Congress TICCIH in Freiberg in 2009 which, for the first time in the history of these congresses, dealt with the issue of how the arts (painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, film, literature) responded to the phenomenon of the […]