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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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