RUDOLF FRIČ IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INTERWAR URBANIZATION OF BRATISLAVA’S EASTERN SUBURBS

• Authors: Kiaček Matúš
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The former eastern edge of Bratislava – the area neighbouring St Andrew’s Cemetery – first underwent significant urbanization through modern urban regulation in the 1930s, this it had been preceded by attempts based on plans by Victor Bernárdt in 1905 and by the Technical Division in 1906. The 1930s regulation included the creation of transverse and longitudinal urban axes – Cintorínska Street and Lazaretská Street – with modern multifunctional residential buildings that offered administrative and commercial services. At the intersection of the two axes, the building of Slovenská Grafia – the original Slovak printing house – was built according to a design of the builder Rudolf Frič. Together with Frič’s other buildings, today these buildings represent the most comprehensive segment of interwar redevelopment in this area, as the entire interwar redevelopment of both the axes has never been completed. At the same time, they serve as confirmation of a contemporary practice in which regulatory plans were intentionally tailored to fit the interests of developers and project architects who were directly represented in the city’s regulatory bodies. In this study case, they were tailored to the interests of Rudolf Frič, who intervened in an intentional change of the regulation of both Cintorínska and Lazaretská.

Keywords

EN

URBAN REGULATION; INTERWAR URBANIZATION; BRATISLAVA; RUDOLF FRIČ; SLOVENSKÁ GRAFIA

• Publisher: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice
• Journal: Mesto a dejiny
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 88 – 119

Contributors

author

Kiaček Matúš

• Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture and Monument Restoration, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.33542/CAH2024-2-04