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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 />
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