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construct big community buildings. At home we still perceive<br />

them as something connected with the freshly overthrown<br />

political period but for foreign visitors they are proof of<br />

a mature architectural culture hidden behind the iron curtain<br />

and under the label of a poorly functional political system.<br />

Let alone the fact that the possibilities provided by the strong<br />

hand of the state were often in compliance with what most<br />

architects’ desire: to be able to realise big dreams and big<br />

works. Thus we see the new building of the Slovak National<br />

Gallery (Vladimír Dedeček) as a simple big bridge in a line of<br />

conventional houses on the Danube waterfront or the strong<br />

gesture of Svetko's group when he overturned the pyramid<br />

and equipped it with a generous system of inner terraces,<br />

creating the Slovak Radio building in Bratislava.” 57<br />

on 14th December the Austrian photographer Hertha<br />

Hurnaus and Austrian architects Benjamin Konrad and<br />

Maik Novotny introduced their book entitled Eastmodern<br />

in the Bratislava Luna bar of the Kyjev Hotel. 58<br />

This book for the first time since 1989 saw some of<br />

the top architectural works of the 1960s and ‘70s in Slovakia<br />

not only as the specters of modern and/or socialistic<br />

52 Rozhovor o architektúre. Štefan Šlachta (Samuel Abrahám).<br />

Kritika a kontext, 9, 20<strong>05</strong>, No. 2, p. 59.<br />

53 Ibidem.<br />

54 ŠLACHTA, Štefan. Hriechy architektúry. Príroda a spoločnost’, 39,<br />

1990, No. 20, p. 18..<br />

55 Opravu potrebujú všetky galérie (Juraj Handzo's interview<br />

with Katarína Bajcutová). Bratislavské noviny, No. <strong>12</strong>, 2007, p. 1.<br />

56 (rob.) Miliardovou obnovou sa chce Slovenská národná galéria<br />

viac otvorit’ l’ud’om. Ibidem, p. 5. .<br />

57 DULLA, Matúš. “Úvod.”. In: Idem. Slovenská architektúra<br />

od Jurkoviča po dnešok. Bratislava: Perfekt 2007, p. 7. See also<br />

Medailóny stavieb p. 15 (Slovak National Archive in Bratislava),<br />

p. 52 (SNG in Bratislava: “The most impressive building of Danube<br />

waterfront is the fourth wing of SNG [bridging].”), p. 54<br />

(Incheba in Bratislava), p. 71 (Slovak Medical University<br />

in Modra-Harmónia), p. 96 (Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra)<br />

and p. 133 (Zvolen University in Zvolen).<br />

58 HURNAUS, Hertha – KONRAD, Benjamin – NOVOTNY, Maik.<br />

Eastmodern. Wien: Springer Wien NY, 2007.<br />

117

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