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This project The Care for Architecture: Asking the Arché of Archi -<br />

tecture to Dance was initiated by cooperation between Petr<br />

Hájek – Vít Halada’s studio (Faculty of Architecture and Academy<br />

of Fine Arts and Design /AFAD/, Department of Architecture),<br />

Ján Studený – Benjamín Brádňanský’s studio (AFAD, Department<br />

of Architecture) and architectural theorist Marián Zervan<br />

(AFAD and Trnava University, Department of Theory and History<br />

of Arts). It was developed further in cooperation with architectural<br />

theorist Monika Mitášová (Trnava University, Department<br />

of Theory and History of Arts) and exhibition commissioner The<br />

Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava. What they have in common<br />

is their lasting interest in the work of the architect Vladimír<br />

Dedeček. This can be found not only in their attitudes to the<br />

Slovak National Gallery edifices and other of his architectural<br />

works but also in a number of events / see Chronology, p. 119–<strong>12</strong>0 /. Just<br />

to mention a few of them, there are studio analyses of Vladimír<br />

Dedeček’s works or shared inter-studio project Iconic ruins<br />

in which students of architecture deal with the renewal and<br />

reconstruction of significant works from the 1960s and 70s in<br />

Slovakia, including the buildings of Vladimír Dedeček.<br />

The authors of the project, who are also its curators, have<br />

decided to show various ways of dealing with one of Vladimír<br />

Dedeček’s most significant as well as controversial works –<br />

the Slovak National Gallery area, designed and built between<br />

1962 and 1979, and exhibit them in the national pavilion of the<br />

Czech and Slovak Republics. In various ways the authors of the<br />

exhibition project show the whole range of changes during the<br />

period of design, construction and use as well as the renewal<br />

and reconstruction: from changes in the project documentation<br />

to changes in shape, materials, technical equipment and various<br />

versions of use of the functioning or closed premises. Including<br />

its rebuilding, as well as a range of competitions and creative<br />

workshops aimed solely at the development of the testimony of<br />

the SNG buildings. The authors also show the manifold reactions<br />

of jury members, Slovak and foreign architects of different<br />

generations who had either visited the SNG or held lectures<br />

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