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Arts Council to appreciate the value of the architect
Dedeček's work for Slovak culture. The West has started
to strongly recognise it as interesting, unique and original.
Jan Tabor's energy in promoting Dedeček in Vienna, the
comments of Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Wolf Prix and
the whole Vienna architecture scene (Roman Delugan,
PPAG...), Jan Neutellings, Peter Cook, Farshid Moussavi
and many others were and still are in strong contrast with
our statements.” 67
The curator and critic Jan Tabor noted in a magazine review
of both above mentiond events: “... Dedeček's persecution
is only a pose of the new heroic anti-communists in the era
of post-communist well-being; the persecution of his
architecture is often just the foolishness of the new era (...)
oh, may it [the SNG bridging] have been done by Koolhaas...,
my Vienna friends keep saying...”. 68
2012
the SNG curator Viera Dlháňová used the example
of SNG building in her contribution that dealt with the issues
of sustainability and protection of the late Modern architecture
in Slovakia 69 .
2013
a group of authors from the Institute of Construction and
Architecture of the Slovak Academy of Sciences renewed the
discussion Moderné a/alebo totalitné v architektúre 20. storočia
na Slovensku, 70 (The Modern and/or the Totalitarian in
20 th Century Architecture in Slovakia), this time in the book
of the main editor Dr. Henrieta Moravčíková, that dealt with the
topic of the totalitarian era architecture from the mid-1990s. 71
In the introduction, Professor Matúš Dulla compared
Slovakia and other European countries (Germany, Italy,
Spain and states of the former socialistic block) with the
terms undemocratic regimes, benevolent totality, totalitarian/
authoritative and authoritarian regimes. This differentiation is
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