Tag: interwar Czechoslovakia

Notes on the Bratislava Activities of the Architect Emil Brüll´s Construction Company

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

The architect Emil Brüll was a member of the group of Slovakia’s Jewish architects who died or were executed during WW II. He worked in Bratislava, mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. This contribution aims to clarify and complete our information about his work. Many buildings that have been the subject of study for architecture […]

The Greater Bratislava of Architects Alois Balán and Jiří Grossmann

Issue: 2019, Volume 53, No. 1 - 2

The declaration of Bratislava as Slovakia’s capitol opened a new chapter in its urban development. In reflecting on the new city, a significant contribution was made by the visions of architects Alois Balán and Jiří Grossmann, as the only ones consistently presenting the urban program of Greater Bratislava. The present study presents the intellectual genesis […]