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architectural solution as well as the operational solution for the<br />

difficult situation around the SNG and the significant adjacent<br />

areas where the author managed to provide a solution at<br />

a <strong>high</strong> architectural level.” 6 Work began on the initial project.<br />

Dr. Karol Vaculík dealt with the perspective of the extension<br />

of the SNG in the magazine Kultúrny život. 7<br />

1967<br />

Vladimír Dedeček finished the initial project for<br />

the Construction Completion and Extension of the SNG<br />

premises. The project was submitted to the expert committee 8<br />

of the Ministry of Education and Culture. 9 Under the direction<br />

of Professor Belluš the committee drew up their opinion with<br />

objections. According to later comments from the architect,<br />

the committee described the project as “... conservative –<br />

there is seemingly no point in adapting the scale and shape<br />

of the extension to the surrounding and architecturally<br />

unimportant buildings”. 10<br />

5 Monika Mitášová’s unpublished interview with Vladimír Dedeček<br />

in Bratislava, summer 2014 – summer 2015.<br />

6 [Collective of authors.] Záverečné technicko-ekonomické<br />

vyhodnotenie stavby Rekonštrukcia a prístavba SNG,<br />

Bratislava 1979, p. 3.<br />

7 VACULÍK, Karol. Už by mala byt’ (O perspektívach prístavby<br />

Slovenskej národnej galérie). Kultúrny život, 19, 1964, No. 19, p. 10.<br />

8 The expert opinions were written by prof. Dr. Ing. Jozef Harvančík,<br />

Ing. arch. Marián Marcinka and one opinion had illegible signatures<br />

with no names. Within the expert committee, the design was<br />

commented by prof. Ing. arch. Emil Belluš, prof. Dr. Ing. Jozef<br />

Harvančík, Ing. arch. Štefan Svetko for the Bratislava Chief City<br />

Architect Office, prof. Ing. arch. Vladimír Karfík, Ing. arch. Anton<br />

Zimmermann [Cimmermann]. Ing. arch. Jozef Lacko apologized.<br />

See attachment to Dr. Karol Vaculík’s letter to arch. Vladimír<br />

Dedeček from 4 September 1967. Typewritten copy, p. 19.<br />

In: Fond Karol Vaculík, Visual Arts Archive of SNG.<br />

9 Direction of SNC Committee for Education and Culture from 28<br />

December 1962. The implementer was the Minister of Education<br />

and Culture RSDr. Vasil Bil’ak. See [Collective of authors.]<br />

Záverečné technicko-ekonomické vyhodnotenie dokončenej stavby,<br />

Rekonštrukcia a prístavba SNG. Bratislava 1979, p. 3.<br />

10 / see p. 99 /<br />

97

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