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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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