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were the architects Benjamín Brádňanský, Ján Ťupek,<br />

Imro Vaško, historian Peter Szalay, theorist Marián Zervan<br />

from Bratislava and guests from Austria: the curator and<br />

art historian Ingrid Holzschuh 63 and the architect and critic<br />

Jan Tabor. 64 The final speech was given by Vladimír Dedeček.<br />

Theorist Marián Zervan considered and evaluated<br />

Dedeček's work in the Slovak historiography: “In writings<br />

about Vladimír Dedeček and evaluations of his work we can<br />

see myths of two types. Firstly, that no one was writing about<br />

it, i.e. everyone kept silent about it. Secondly, that it was<br />

uncritically accepted in the socialist era and uncritically<br />

condemned after 1989.” 65<br />

Architect and critic Imro Vaško summarized the local<br />

situation and the requests of international architects for the<br />

preservation and protection of modern architectural works<br />

in Slovakia 66 : “While the architecture of parallel modernism<br />

has been overlooked in Slovakia for the past twenty years,<br />

the Dedeček phenomenon has not only been ignored by<br />

retrospective works such as Dejiny slovenského výtvarného<br />

umenia – 20. storočie (History of Slovak Fine Arts –<br />

20 th Century) but also dismissed and negatively evaluated<br />

by the top representatives of the Slovak architectural<br />

community as well as the intellectual and artistic community.<br />

At this time we should mention e.g. the inability of the AFAD<br />

62 ZERVAN, Marián. Laudatio. Digital document, p. 2, author's archive.<br />

63 See HOLZSCHUH, Ingrid. Wiener Stadtplanung im<br />

Nationalsozialismus von 1938 bis 1942. Das Neugestaltungsprojekt<br />

von Architekt Hanns Dustmann. Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2011.<br />

64 See TABOR, Jan. Kunst und Diktatur. Architektur, Bildhauerei und<br />

Malerei in Österreich, Deutschland, Italien und der Sowjetunion<br />

1922–1956. Baden: Grasl, 1994. An exhibition with the same name<br />

took place in his curator concept from 28 March to 15 August 1994<br />

in Künstlerhaus Wien.<br />

65 ZERVAN, Marián. Vladimír Dedeček's work in some books<br />

on Slovak, Czechoslovak as well as world architecture (contribution<br />

presented during the Marathon of fifteen-minute lectures dedicated<br />

to Vladimír Dedeček's architecture in domestic and international<br />

context. 17 July 2009, SNG in Bratislava). Digital document,<br />

p. 3, author's archive.<br />

66 VAŠKO, Imro. Dedeček's generation of Stavoprojekt (contribution<br />

presented ibidem). Digital document, p. 2 Author's archive.<br />

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