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Heritage Obscured: Undesirable Legacies of the Prior Department Stores in Slovakia
Heritage Obscured: Undesirable Legacies of the Prior Department Stores in Slovakia

Author(s): Natália Kvítková
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Architecture, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: post-socialist heritage; Socialist Modernism; collective memory; undesirable architecture; mass Modernism;

Summary/Abstract: Slovak architecture, by definition buildings which followed the 1918 union of Slovakia and the Czech Republic into Czechoslovakia, began with the promising Czechoslovak functionalism from the inter- and post-war period. It was the foundation for the Slovak contribution to late Modernism, also called Socialist Modernism and Eastmodern, which emerged from a program developed by the Socialist government “to manifest the national integrity of the country,” through architecture.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 171-188
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: English