Produktbeschreibung
Architectural events of any chosen period can not be perfectly recorded in all their diversity and contradictions. Nevertheless architecture historians have been repeatedly trying to fathom, through selected processes and phenomena, various architectural situations and their typical attributes. No matter how much one tries to be objective, all such texts eventually become influenced by an author´s personal preferences or the historical settings in which they are written. This publication is no different. It was influenced by contemporary circumstances, the preferences of the author, and the visions of the publisher. We selected a limited number of works; as is inevitable for any such book. Our choice was made to present domestic contemporary architecture at its best as well as to illustrate the entire breadth of local architectural discussion. We opted for completed works rather than projects, because they directly contribute to our material environment. They are the most visible architectural scene, and the most influential on society. We tried to balance out this limitation in the introduction, where we refer to currents of thought, phenomena and events that have entered our local architectural discourse, but have not become part of our material environment. The individual architectural works are arranged into six groups, according to thir purpose, environment, and origin. Concurrently, the size of these groups reflects the structure of fomestic building construction in recent years. It is immediately evident that residential buildings made up the largest share and public buildings a tiny one. This selection also illustrates the long-term geographical imbalance in the districubion of builing investments across Slovakia. While in Bratislava tens of new buildings were being developed as of the mid-1990s, the rest of the country was still waiting for building investmens to start. Althought the disproportion has been easing off sicne 2000, our selection demonstrates that the focus os the contemporary architectural scene has remained in the western part of the country.
