Lecture of prof. dr. ing. arch. Henrietta Moravčíková: "A Slovak variant of modernism?"

November 22, 6 pm

We invite you to the lecture of prof. dr. ing. arch. Henrietta Moravčíková entitled "A Slovak variant of modernism?" Prof. Moravčíková, an outstanding researcher of modernist architecture in Central Europe, will present Slovak architecture of the second half of the 20th century as a special phenomenon, reflecting the aspirations and identity tensions of this region.

The lecture will be delivered in English, with simultaneous translation into Polish.

prof. Dr. Ing. arch. Henrieta Moravčíková

Works as a senior researcher and head of the Department of Architecture at the Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Since 2014 she is professor at the Faculty of architecture STU in Bratislava. She is involved in research and critiques of 20th and 21st century architecture. She is editor and member of the editorial board of the scientific journal “Architektúra & Urbanizmus”. From the year 1997 till the year 2009 she was editor in chief of the monthly “ARCH on Architecture and other Culture”. She is the chair of the Slovak working party of DOCOMOMO (Documentation and Conservation of Modern Movement Architecture). She has published several monographs, tens of studies and critiques on architecture of 20th century and prepared several exhibitions on architecture. Together with Matúš Dulla she prepared the crucial monograph on Slovak architecture 20th Century “Architecture in Slovakia” (Slovart, 2002) and edited the first synoptic monograph on Slovak architecture “Architecture in Slovakia: concise history” (Slovart, 2005). For several times she was awarded with the Prize of Slovak Literary Fund and the Prize of Martin Kusý for the theoretical work in architecture.