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Selected works of Vladimír Dedeček are published in
this context together with the works of Belluš, Chorvát,
Kusý, Svetlík, Kroha and the group, Kuzma, Svetko, Matušík,
Chovanec, Mlynárčik with Mecková and Kupkovič within the
performance of two international research tasks: a project
called Architecture of totalitarian regimes of the 20 th century
in city management in Southern and Eastern Europe and
a project called Differentiated typology of modernism:
a theoretical basis for the maintenance and renewal of modern
architectural works in Slovakia. The author of the introduction
justified their unification in one book by the controversy of the
conservative and the modern (it means neither the classical
and the modern, nor the conservative and the progressive)
in 20 th century architecture in Slovakia.
in a review of this book, Jan Tabor pointed out the
importance of research as well as the problems concerning the
terms and concepts used: “We could keep arguing about the
term totalitarian forever. This attribute is pejorative in a totalitarian
way and tempts us into a mistaken view that the state or
official architecture of any state that has been assigned with
this ideologically motivated attribute is necessarily totalitarian
too. (...) It is usually also unfair to the architects who were
designing and building, and making mistakes in the conditions
in which they had to live, which, however, they mostly rejected,
very often with their own high quality architecture.” 73 Tabor's
review highlights that 20 th and 21 st century architecture that is
officially supported by dictatorships, centralized governments
and political groups that (not even today) tolerate no opposition,
does not always have to be as defined, i.e. totalitarian from the
nature of the power of the state. The architectural differentiation
in undemocratic systems can be jointly formed – and in some
works they are provably jointly formed – by polemic, subversive
and critical procedures of creation that can be distinguished
and are different from those that are being nodded over by
the established state power regime.
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