ARCHITEKTRA & URBANIZMUS

Journal of architectural and townplanning theory

Full Journal Title: Architektra urbanizmus Journal of architectural and town-planning theory
ISSN: 0044-8680
Publishers name and address: Institute of Construction and Architecture, Slovak Academy of
Sciences, Dbravsk cesta 9, 845 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Editors name and address: Henrieta Moravkov, Institute of Construction and Architecture,
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dbravsk cesta 9, 845 03 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

The journal Architektra urbanizmus was launched in 1967 on the initiative of the Institute of
Construction and Architecture of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and the Department
of Architecture and Environment Theory of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. Most
important personalities of the Czechoslovak Modern Movement like architects and academics
Bohuslav Fuchs, Emil Bellu, Emanuel Hruka and Martin Kus were funding members of the first
editorial board of the journal.
Architektra urbanizmus is today prominent for the role it plays in providing the best Central and
Eastern European scholars the possibility to publish results of their latest research in theory of
architecture, urban and environmental studies in wider international context. The ambition to provide
space for confrontation of knowledge was the initial motivation behind the editorial concept of the
journal as early as 1960s. The isolation of the than socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe
after 1968, however, did not fully allow to realize it until 1989. Therefore the editorial effort of last
20 years aims at opening fully the potential of the journal within the philosophy of its founding
editors. As such it plays a key role in mediation of the long time marginalized part of the global
architectural scene behind the former "iron curtain".
Architektra urbanizmus covers research topics of the modern and contemporary 20th and 21st
century architecture in the Central and Eastern European context. Since 1990s the journal focuses on
modern movement architecture conservation issues.
The content of Architektra urbanizmus is fully reviewed and the journal is abstracted and
indexed by Elsevier bibliographic database SCOPUS. Following the tradition the journal is
published biannually in double spring and fall issues.
With its 44 years tradition Architektra urbanizmus is longest running scientific journal on
architecture and urban studies in continuous production in Central and Eastern Europe.

Instructions for authors

The journal publishes research results in the field of architecture, town planning and conservation.
The contributions should be in form of scientific study, book review or review of professional event.
The manuscripts must be original, unpublished work. All papers receive blind review. Revisions
might be required before a decision is made to accept or reject the paper. The texts should be
submitted in electronic form to the technical editor dagmar.slamova@savba.sk. All information on
scope, form and technical parameters of the manuscript are available at
http://www.sav.sk/index.php?lang=sk&charset=&doc=journal&journal_no=4
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The main studies should be around 5.000 words (including notes).

Reviews and Short Information should not extend 1.500 words.
Text might be submitted in Slovak, Czech or English language.
Texts should be submitted as Word files either by e-mail or on disk/CD with minimum
formatting.
Notes should appear as endnotes, not footnotes.
All diagrams and photographs should be either good hard copies or electronic format jpeg
or tiff files. Resolution should be not less than 300 dpi. The position of each should be
indicated in the text, and all figures should be referred to in the text. A separate list of
captions should be provided at the end of the text. Please, do not embed images or diagrams
in the text.
Tables should appear at the end of the text, but their positions indicated in the text.
Authors should provide resume of 9.000 signs and selection of 5 7 key words (to illustrate
the content of the paper).
References will be brought into line with the Slovak System

Journal paper
Schreider, S.Y. Smith, D.I. Jakeman, A.J.: Climate change impacts on urban flooding. Climatic
Change, 47, 2000, pp. 91 115.
Book
Almandoz, Arturo: Planning Latin Americas Capital Cities, 18501950. London, Routledge 2002,
350 p.
Chapter within a book
Basti, Jean: Paris: Baroque elegance and agglomeration. In: Eldredge, H.W. (ed.) World Capitals:
Towards Guided Urbanization. Garden City, NY, Anchor/Doubleday 1975, pp 17 27.
Website
Demographia (nd) Mumbai: Population, Area & Density by Ward 1991 and 1981. Available at
http://www.demographia.com/db-mumbaiward91.htm. Accessed 20 June 2006.

CURRENT CALLS
Examination of Architecture and Urban Design in the Second Half of the 20th Century
The journal Architektra & urbanizmus is the oldest uninterruptedly published periodical in
Central Europe focusing on the publication of research results in the fields of architecture and urban
design. It was launched in the mid-1960s with the ambition of forming a space for the confrontation
of the most recent findings in the areas of architectural theory, urban planning and environmental
protection within a broader international context. Attesting to these aims was the ambitious thematic
range as well as the variety of authors represented in the first issues of the journal, including
alongside leading Czech and Slovak researchers the publication of the article Architecture,
Urbanism, City (Architektra, urbanizmus, mesto) by Manfredo Tafuri. However, the international
isolation of Czechoslovakia following the Soviet invasion of 1968 made it impossible fully to realise
the ambitions. Even though the Czechoslovak scholarly community strove to reflect in this journal
the latest international discussion, it was achieved often only indirectly, at second-hand, or with great
delay.
Only following the political changes that swept across Europe in 1989 could the journal once
again return to a full meeting of the expectations of its founders. During the years to follow, it
gradually asserted its standing as a key medium in the regional intermediation of the results of
research in the history and theory of architecture and urban planning. Moreover, the journal also
served, and still continues to serve, a significant function in providing information about many longmarginalised parts of the architectonic scene behind the former Iron Curtain.
In the year 2016, Architektra & urbanizmus will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its
founding. The half-century mark forms an opportunity for looking backward not only at the history
of the journal itself, but even more significantly on the history of scholarly research on the topics that
the journal has covered and covers today. As a result, in the year 2016 the journal intends to offer
space for the publication of studies focusing on the history and the present state of research into
architecture and urban design. We expect these studies primarily to address the Czech and Slovak, or
respectively the Czechoslovak, scholarly and cultural area, yet we also welcome contributions that
address these questions in a wider Central or Eastern European context and in the context of
European periphery. We would also be interested in contributions analysing personalities and
institutions that drew attention to this research or made significant contributions to it. Equally
welcome are contributions reflecting the role of Architektra & urbanizmus in stimulating discussion
on architectural and urban design, or in transmitting the results of research on these topics.
Contributions must be submitted by the latest on 30 April 2016 at the address of the technical
editor of the journal: architektura-urbanizmus@savba.sk
All contributions are evaluated by independent reviewers. Accepted contributions will be
published in one of the two issues of the 50th volume of the journal. Please adhere to the instructions
for authors in your preparation.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Ing. arch. Matus Dulla, DrSc. (chairman), Fakulta architektury CVUT, Praha
Prof. Ing. arch. Friedrich Achleitner, PhD., Wien
Doc. PhDr. Dana Borutova, PhD., Filozoficka fakulta UK, Bratislava
Doc. Ing. arch. Pavel Halik, CSc., Fakult umni a architektury TUL, Liberec
Doc. PhDr. Petr Kratochvil, CSc., Ustav djin umni AVCR, Praha
Prof. Ing. arch. Akos Moravanszky, PhD., Institut fr Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur ETH, Zrich
Doc. Dr. Ing. arch. Henrieta Moravcikova (editor), USTARCH SAV, Bratislava
Prof. Ing. arch. Vladimir Slapeta, DrSc. Fakulta architektury, VUT, Brno
Prof. Ing. arch. Robert Spacek, PhD., Fakulta architektury STU, Bratislava
Prof. PhDr. Rostislava Svacha, PhD., Ustav djin umni AVCR, Praha
Prof. Ing. arch. Petr Urlich, PhD., Stavebni fakulta CVUT, Praha

The quarterly Architektra & urbanizmus provides a forum for the publication of papers on
theory of architecture and town-planning. The attention is mostly concentrated on the recent state,
history, philosophy and culture of architecture and town-planning, as well as on the problems of their
art nature and on the theory of their technical aspects. The published papers deal with the relation of

architecture and town-planning to art, technology and environment. They also present research
results of architecture and town-planning sociology and psychology, social ecology, environment
technology and of other theoretical disciplines which contribute to the development of the theoretical
knowledge in architecture and town-planning. The papers further deals with methods of appreciation
and criticism of architectural and town-planning activities, as with appreciation of outstanding
architects, architectonic works and periods. Papers on architecture and town-planning education,
book reviews and information on scientific meetings are involved. The quarterly is published by the
Institute of Construction and Architecture of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the
Art History Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic.
Indexed in Web of science, SCOPUS, Elsevier Bibliographic Database, in Journal index of the
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and Central and East European online Library
(CEEOL)
Published quarterly
EV 3179/09
ISSN 0044 8680

ARCHIVES
A&U, L, 2016, 12
STRATIGRAPHY OF THE SMART CITY CONCEPT
THE VISION OF THE SOCIALIST CITY IN THE EXAMPLE OF NOV OSTRAVA
DEFORMATIONS OF THE VACATIONSCAPE
THE MECHANISM OF CHANGING EFFECTS ON THE BALATON LANDSCAPE
AFTER 1968

LATE MODERNISM IN THE SLOVAK SPA LOCALITIES

INVESTIGATION OF THE DEPICTION OF THE "INDUSTRIAL WORLD" IN THE
ARCHITECTURE OF INTERWAR PRAGUE
IMRE STEINDLS NEO-GOTHIC APPROACH IN THE HUNGARIAN DESIGN
COMPETITIONS OF THE 1870S
A&U, XLIX, 2015, 3-4
VISIONS, PLANNING AND STRATEGIC URBAN DEVELOPMENT: THE EXAMPLE
OF PRAGUE
TRANSFORMATION OF AN INNER CITY IN THE POSTSOCIALIST PERIOD, CASE
STUDY HOLEOVICE, PRAGUE
THE LIFESPAN OF LARGE PREFABRICATED HOUSING ESTATES IN POSTCOMMUNIST CITIES: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
THE BOULEVARD AS A TYPE OF URBAN LINEAR SPACE THE HISTORICAL
BOULEVARDS OF POLTAVA (UKRAINE) AND MONS (BELGIUM)
PLANNING THE UNPLANNED CITY: MODERN URBAN CONCEPTIONS IN A
TRADITIONAL URBAN STRUCTURE
TOWARDS A NEW MONUMENTALITY: THE CREATION OF AN URBAN
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ARCHITECTURAL AND CULTURAL VALUES OF
HERITAGE IN THE REVITALIZATION PROCESS
EXPERIMENTING WITH TEMPORALITY AND CINEMATIC TECHNIQUES AS AN
ALTERNATIVE POSITION IN ARCHITECTURE
A&U, XLIX, 2015, 1-2
EDITORIAL - HISTORIOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION AND METAINTERPRETATION OF ARCHITECTURE
AMATEUR INTERPRETATIONS OF ARCHITECTURE - INDIVIDUAL STRUCTURES
AND HOUSING ESTATES IN THE CZECH DAILY PRESS, 1868 1989
RECEPTION AND ARCHITECTURAL INTERPRETATION: THE TELEVISION
TOWER AND HOTEL JETD AND THE PRAGUE-IKOV TELEVISION TOWER
INTERPRETATION BY MONOGRAPH - THE BIOGRAPHICAL GENRE IN NEW
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS ON IMPORTANT SLOVAK ARCHITECTS
INTERPRETIVE RESIDUES IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAA HOUSE OF
SERVICES IN BRATISLAVA
INVISIBLE ARCHITECTS: THE FIRST GENERATION OF WOMEN IN SLOVAK
ARCHITECTURE - THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION AND METAINTERPRETATION OF ARCHITECTURE
THE ANALYSIS OF INTERPRETATIONAL PROCEDURES IN PETER EISENMANS
BOOK TEN CANONICAL BUILDINGS
FORM AND ITS RECEPTION IN ARCHITECTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE
AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN NITRA
THE SENSE OF A HOUSE ON LEVINASS IMPORTANCE FOR THINKING ABOUT
ARCHITECTURE
A&U, XLVIII, 2014, 3-4
VIBRATIONS IN THE INTERLUDE A FEW NOTES ON THE CURRENT SITUATION
OF POST-WAR INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE RE-EVALUATING RESEARCH
PARAMETERS FOR MORE AUTHENTIC PRESERVATION APPROACHES
VALUE SAVING AND COMMUNITY USE REGARDING URBAN RENEWAL
PROTECTION OF HUNGARIAN INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE AND POSSIBILITIES
FOR ITS REUTILIZATION AT THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM
AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSALITY ATTEMPTS AT SYSTEMATIZATION IN
HUNGARIAN INDUSTRIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE EARLY KDR PERIOD
THE LUSATIAN LAKELAND
AN EASTERN GERMAN PROJECT FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN
INDUSTRIAL OPENCAST MINING LANDSCAPE

THE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF THE DYNAMITKA WORKS VERSUS

TRADITIONAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION UPDATE OF THE THEORETICAL
BASIS
TECHNICAL OBJECTS IN THE COMPLEX OF THE TBC SANATORIUM IN VYN
HGY
FROM TECHNICAL BEAUTY TO THE MODERN AESTHETIC AND BACK:
UNREALISED INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS OF JOSEF MAREK IN THE CONTEXT OF
MODERN ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT 1900 1939
SPA TECHNOLOGY WITH STEEL CAST-IRON STRUCTURES IN KARLOVY
VARY
A&U, XLVIII, 2014, 12
THE PRINCIPLE OF DENSITY REGULATION AS A WAY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE
CITY GROWTH
CASE STUDY MASTER PLANS OF SELECTED CITIES IN SLOVAKIA
ELITES AND THE PUBLIC: THE ETHICAL DIMENSION OF URBAN PLANNING IN
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DESIGN: A SOLAR ENERGY STRATEGY FOR A
SUSTAINABLE CITY
THE INFLUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS OF THE LATE FIFTIES
AND SIXTIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL FORM
TEASING IDENTITY: NARRATIVES OF THE COMMUNIST BLOCK
NARRATION, ABSTRACTION, CONTEXT
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF
CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN HUNGARY