How Slovakia's Soviet Ties Led to a Unique Form of Sci-Fi Architecture
The history of Slovakia is riddled with political unrest and unwanted occupation, with the Slovak people having repeatedly been denied a voice throughout history. In the years following World War I, Slovakia was forced into the common state of Czechoslovakia; the territory was dismembered by the Nazi regime in 1938 and occupied by the Nazis for most of the Second World War, before being eventually liberated by Soviet and Romanian forces in 1945. Over the next four decades of communist rule?first by communists within Czechoslovakia itself and then later by the Soviet Union?the architecture of Slovakia came to develop into a unique form of sci-fi postmodernism that celebrated the shift in industrial influence at the time.
Memorial and Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, by architect Du?an Kuzma, 1963-1970. Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Image © Stefano Perego
The history of Slovakia is riddled with political unrest and unwanted occupation, with the Slovak people having repeatedly been denied a voice throughout history. In the years following World War I, Slovakia was forced into the common state of Czechoslovakia; the territory was dismembered by the Nazi regime in 1938 and occupied by the Nazis for most of the Second World War, before being eventually liberated by Soviet and Romanian forces in 1945. Over the next four decades of communist rule?first by communists within Czechoslovakia itself and then later by the Soviet Union?the architecture of Slovakia...
Memorial and Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, by architect Du?an Kuzma, 1963-1970. Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. Image © Stefano Perego
The history of Slovakia is riddled with political unrest and unwanted occupation, with the Slovak people having repeatedly been denied a voice throughout history. In the years following World War I, Slovakia was forced into the common state of Czechoslovakia; the territory was dismembered by the Nazi regime in 1938 and occupied by the Nazis for most of the Second World War, before being eventually liberated by Soviet and Romanian forces in 1945. Over the next four decades of communist rule?first by communists within Czechoslovakia itself and then later by the Soviet Union?the architecture of Slovakia...
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