Специализираните (служебни) пътувания – пренос на художествени идеи и прагматичен опит
Business trips covered by the periodicals of the interwar period: transfer of art ideas and pragmatic experience. Notes from the 1935 International congress of architects

Summary/Abstract: Travelling, as an opportunity to transfer art ideas and gain experience, is a phenomenon important to the adopting cultures in the periphery. The social development of Bulgaria witnessed throughout the 1930s a real inclusion in the cultural processes of the main European centres. This article deals with the three types of business trips in the said period: to study a particular problem; endeavours that transferred national content to a foreign milieu as well as participation in international professional events. The text examines more precisely the Bulgarian participation in the 1935 International Congress of Architects, organised by a group of French architects and co-hosted by Prague, Vienna, and Budapest. The choice of the Bulgarian participants was made on the basis of these specifics and on the delegation were as follows: arch. L. Tonev, a French graduate; arch. T. Krastanova, a graduate of the Vienna University of Technology; arch. D. Fingov and arch. B. Kapitanov the sculptors V. Zidarov and D. Luchiyanov, who worked for Sofia Municipality. The Architect journal provided a platform for the delegates to cover extensively the event: from information about the course of the congress to an excerpt of arch. L. Tonevs’ speech to a report by the Bulgarian delegates and a number of publications on the topics discussed at the congress. The readers of the journal of the Society of the Architects in Bulgaria obtained in a timely fashion an idea of the overall picture of that important event. The unreserved sharing of what had been learned, seen and experienced was adequate to the efforts of the Bulgarian specialists to develop a local professional community according to parameters set by the leading centres in Europe.

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