ARCHIMAP 2/20: Mapping The Post-War Socialist Architecture in Košice
ARCHIMAP 2/20: Mapping The Post-War Socialist Architecture in Košice

Summary/Abstract: Even though Košice is Slovakia’s second largest city, the metropolis of the country’s eastern part, and an urban formation that experienced its greatest construction growth in the postwar years, there is a significant absence of knowledge and appreciation of the architecture created between the 1960s and 1980s, in comparison with its historical core. In previous years, research has focused mostly on interwar architecture. More recently, the focus of interest has moved towards urbanism, where investigations have undergone a chronological shift towards the later part of the 20th century. Yet all the same, the era of socialist construction, the operation of state design institutes in Eastern Slovakia, the realisations by significant national architects (Eugen Kramár, Ján Šprlák-Uličný, Viktor Malinovský, Pavol Merjavý and others) or the contributions by Czech figures (Růžena Žertová, František Antl, Karel Prager and others) still remain insufficiently addressed.

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