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area. 20 The monumentality of the bridging was, in her opinion,<br />

in contrast to the more delicate structure of the arcade<br />

courtyard of the historical Water Barracks building. The<br />

bridging is: “an object that is structurally courageous but<br />

architecturally somewhat contradictory.” 21 In other words: the<br />

greater is the contrast in scale, the greater is the architectural<br />

“contradiction”. While modernists understood monumentality as<br />

an expression of spiritual and cultural needs (in their view it was<br />

only possible at a time when an unifying knowledge and culture<br />

existed, representing the new spirit and collective feeling of the<br />

modern post-war times in cooperation with all artists 22 ), this<br />

modern view of monumentality – i.e. an innovative synthesis<br />

of old layers with new ones – was not considered to be the<br />

result of the social consensus at the beginning of the 1980s.<br />

What came to the fore in the historical centres of European<br />

cities was the maintenance of the layers and scales of historical<br />

architecture and the various forms of transfer between historical<br />

and current architecture in the post-modern way of thinking and<br />

urban planning and architectural design.<br />

1981<br />

a set of articles on the SNG building was published<br />

in Slovak architectural magazine Projekt. It contained a text<br />

by Jozef Liščák (for the Slovak Architects Society Committee<br />

17 BEISTZER, Ladislav. Väzby architektúry. Dielo a verejnost’. Projekt.<br />

Revue slovenskej architektúry, 20, 1978, No. 9–19, pp. 67–68.<br />

18 PECHAR, Josef. Československá architektura 1945–1977.<br />

Praha: Odeon, 1979, p. 38.<br />

19 VEBR, Jaroslav – NOVÝ, Otakar – VALTEROVÁ, Radomíra. Soudobá<br />

architektura ČSSR. Praha: Panorama, 1980, p. <strong>12</strong>9 [Parallel<br />

introductory text of the chapter signed: rav. (Radomíra Valterová)].<br />

20 Ibidem, pict. No.1<strong>12</strong>, p. 137..<br />

21 Ibidem.<br />

22 SERT, José Luis – LÉGER, Fernand – GIEDION, Siegfried.<br />

Neun Punkte über Monumentalität – Ein menschliches Bedürfnis<br />

[1943]. In: GIEDION, Siegfried. Architektur und Gemeinschaft:<br />

Tagebuch einer Entwicklung. Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1956, pp. 40–42.<br />

Quotation according to: SERT, José Luis – LÉGER, Fernand –<br />

GIEDION, Siegfried. Nine Points of Monumentality. In: OCKMAN,<br />

Joan: Architecture Culture 1943–1968. A Documentary Anthology.<br />

New York: Rizzoli 1993, pp. 29–30.<br />

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