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INTERVIEW WITH JOS BOYS

“There is no universal design, you can't build something that works for everybody.”

Interview / CATASTROPHE COLOURS

About colours with Pierre Jorge Gonzalez from the Berlin based studio GONZALEZ HAASE AAS.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Podcast / MLUVÍCÍ OBJEKTY

A podcast miniseries on architecture, focusing in six episodes on Prague buildings associated with the 1990s

by Monika Bočková

Through the City / A SPACE FOR LONELINESS

They were my alibi from the gaze of others

Close Things / JANA BODNÁROVÁ

Closeness woven long ago

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / NÁMESTIE SLOBODY

I once read somewhere that it doesn't matter how much money you make, you will always find the happiest people at the swimming pool anyway.

by Martin Zaiček

Hidden Cities / GALETO OR THE LAST SECRETS OF LISBON

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / BOKER TOV בוקר טוב [GOOD MORNING]

Lucia Židek Gamanová talks about her doctoral stay at Schenkar College in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Dana Tomečková listens.

by Dana Tomečková

Close Things / BARBARA ZAVARSKÁ

(Slovenčina) Prstom pevne na ženskej línii

by Katarína Poliačiková

Through the City / SENSITIVE EDUCATION IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

Through the City / TREES ON THE CITY PLANS

Review / UNCLEAR IMAGES OF CRISIS IN THE RECORDS OF REALITY

Ján Skaličan: Eyewitness, 1–29 March 2023, tranzit.sk, curated by Judit Angel

by Viktória Pardovičová

Masters of Slovak Design / RONA, Lednické Rovne

130 Times Fragility

by Viera Kleinová

Review / MISSION OSLO

This year the 8th edition of Oslo Architecture Triennale took place in Norway. With the theme "Mission Neighborhood", this show highlighted the relationship of architecture to the everyday, the living space nearby.

Exhibition / FRAGILITY IN THE EVERYDAY

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / THROW AWAY “IKEA MODERNISM”, HERE COMES “MILITANT MODERNISM”

Owen Hatherley: Militantní modernismus. Prague: UMPRUM, 2021

by Monika Kicová

Interview / ŠIMON GALANSKÝ

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s minuloročným víťazom BADW Awards Šimonom Galanským, ktorého autorskú kolekciu nábytku DENNODENNE tento rok nájdete aj v kurátorskom výbere festivalu BADW v decembro v Galérii mesta Bratislavy.

by Bea Macková

Hidden Cities / UNDER THE CITY’S SKIN

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / BIATEC

(Slovenčina) BIATEC. Keltská mincovňa, Galéria Mesta Bratislavy, Pálffyho palác, Panská 19

Review / BRATISLAVA MODERN FOUNTAINS

Martin Zaiček, Andrea Kalinová, Petra Hlaváčková (eds.): Bratislavské moderné fontány, Archimera, 2021

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / DANA TOMEČKOVÁ, In Time to Disappear and Grow

On the memory of close things, reincarnations of jewels and the mysterious life of matter with Dana Tomečková

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / ERNA MONUMENTÁLNA

Erna Masarovičová and her sculptural work, Mirbach Palace - City Gallery of Bratislava, 30 June 2022 - 30 October 2022, curated by Ľuba Belohradská, Ľubica Hustá, Katarína Kissoczy

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / KVET NGUYEN

About a postcard whose edges we will never see beyond.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / THE DIFFERENT VIEW OF JEWELLERY, OR THE SOCIAL VALUE OF A PERSONAL OBJECT

by Katarína D. F. Siposová

Exhibition / SI.LI – CELEBRATION

10 years anniversary of si.li

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / TOMÁŠ JANYPKA

Dylan's Sorrow and Nina Simone's Bubblegum

by Katarína Poliačiková

Skopje, Total Plan

Close Things / MARTIN JENČA

A pen is like being at home

by Katarína Poliačiková

Masters od Slovak Design / JÚLIA KUNOVSKÁ

In the Mirror of Days

by Ľubica Hustá

Close Things / ĽUBA BELOHRADSKÁ

Two stories in one cup

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / RICHARD GLASNER

by Katarína Poliačiková

(Slovenčina) Recenzia / BENÁTSKE BIENÁLE ARCHITEKTÚRY 2021

This year's exceptional and postponed from last year Venice Architecture Biennale is a very good Biennale!

Close Things / GABRIELA KISOVÁ

In one piece of wire

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / OLIVER KLIMPEL, ĽUBICA SEGEČOVÁ

Ľubica Segečová began her conversation with Oliver Klimpel in February 2018. In the meantime, they also met in person, in Berlin in the summer of 2019. If the interview had not been published now, it would have continued.

Close Things / SVÄTOPLUK MIKYTA

Autobiography in a jam

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / SAŠA GABRIŽOVÁ

by Katarína Poliačiková

Close Things / DENISA LEHOCKÁ

This is how it was meant to be

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / VLADIMÍR DEDEČEK

The more work you do, the more criticism you take

by Peter Szalay

Close Things / MATEJ GAVULA

The first object in the new series Close Things comes from far away - Matej Gavula brought it all the way from India, and it continues to fascinate him even after many years.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / IT WASN’T THEM, IT WAS THOSE BEFORE THEM

A surprising story of unintended continuity in Bratislava's planning. Henrieta Moravčíková and collective: BRATISLAVA (UN)PLANNED CITY, Slovart, 2020

by Lívia Gažová

Close Things / LIVES OF TABERY LAMP

by Katarína Poliačiková

Reader / 2020, EXTRAVILÁN

New Work / CRITICAL DAILY

(Slovenčina) Nomináciu na ocenenie Národnej ceny za komunikačný dizajn 2020 v kategórii Nové horizonty získala aj participatívna platforma Critical Daily. Je open-source archívom, ktorý slúži na pridávanie, vyhľadávanie a komentovanie projektov venujúcich sa kritickej praxi.

by Gabika Rusková

Interview / taliaYstudio

Body, play, technology

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / KANAVA

Kanava is a newly created project that brings the stories of contemporary artisans in Slovakia. Kanava is a platform for people who have decided to invest their time in reviving traditional crafts and creating timeless objects that can serve future generations. Katarína Poliačiková spoke with its founders, Paula Blahová and Kristína Šipulová.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Review / INFORMAL MO(NU)MENTS

There is still too little thoughtful work with smaller forms of architecture in public space in Slovakia. High-quality site-specific installations are rather an exceptional coincidence. That's why at MAG D A at the end of the summer we were attracted by the project of the AFAD, which was generously set in terms of production and brought such works.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / CURRO CLARET

Design which gives hope

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / deFORM

Open to challenge

by Alexandra Tamásová

Exhibition / OTIS LAUBERT

Drafter, collage artist, hunter and recycler, occasional poet, pseudo-screenwriter and, as the current exhibition at NOVA Gallery shows, sometimes a “glass artist”.

by Naďa Kančevová

Interview / JAKUB KOPEC

“The Only Thing I Find Interesting in Architecture Is Diversity.”

by Gabriela Smetanová

Interview / COX & GRUSENMEYER

Simplicity spiced up with grotesque

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / DANIELA AND LINDA DOSTÁLKOVÁ

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s Danielou a Lindou Dostálkovou nielen o výstave CLAWS NOT MADE TO SHAKE HANDS WITH, ktorá sa nedávno uskutočnila v Novej synagóge v Žiline.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / Exhibition WALDEN, castle Hollenegg (AT)

Interview with Alice Stori Liechtenstein about Walden and with Crafting Plastics! Studio which takes a part in it this year.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / BJØRN JØRUND BLIKSTAD

"Despite all" designer

by Alexandra Tamásová

Workshop / WE ALL EXIST IN THE IN-BETWEEN SPACE

De/posium is a newly opened international platform focusing on the exchange of knowledge of the current state of art and design with the emphasis on material, processes, sustainability, social context and new economic models.

by Dana Tomečková

Hidden cities / THIS INFINITE SUNDAY

by Katarína Poliačiková

Exhibition / LINDA VIKOVÁ, FROM DUSK TO DAWN

After six years, Linda Viková presents her current work in a solo exhibition, again at the Nova Gallery

by Simona Janišová

Essay / THE COOL THING

by Katarína Poliačiková

JEWELLERY AS SOMETHING / Lucia Gamanová

by Naďa Kančevová

Interview / FLORIAN HAUSWIRTH

Industrial, as well as craft

by Alexandra Tamásová

Interview / BENJAMIN HUBERT

Work is all around

by Alexandra Tamásová

Essay / AT THE BEGINNING THERE WAS THE DESERT

Settlements, totem and tribes

by Parasite 2.0 , Photography by Giaime Meloni

Video / ĽUBICA BELOHRADSKÁ: ABOUT JEWELLERY NOT ONLY IN HER COLLECTION

In an interview with Juraj Johanides

Interview / LLOT LLOV

by Alexandra Tamásová

Essay / AN EMPTY BEAN CAN

on home in temporary places

by Katarína Poliačiková

Essay / EVERYONE LIKES A GOOD STORY

Filipe Magalhães telling a story of the collective rebirth of architecture

by Filipe Magalhães

New Work / CE ZA AR PAVILIONS

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / 4 x REVOLUTION

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / STUDIO ZAVEN (IT)

Studio Zaven was founded in 2006 by designers Enrica Cavarzan and Marco Zavagno. Their programme is multidisciplinary. They focus on researching the interactions between communication, design and art.

by Ľubica Hustá

Exhibition / I WAS KEEPING IT ALL SAFE FOR YOU

Report from the exhibition of Jaro Kyša and his guest Radovan Čerevka in ZAHORIAN & VAN ESPEN Bratislava

New Work / MARCEL HOLUBEC, SUVERÉN

The 2019 National Design Award for Product Design was awarded to Marcel Holubec and his Suverén collection.

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / MONUMENTAL IS BACK

A new monumental realization by Braňo Laho aka Emil Taschka was created in Košice.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / CAMPO

by Gabriela Smetanová

Notes on Andrea Ďurianová's exhibition "Skladom", Čin Čin Gallery, 4th september - 27th september 2019

by Dana Tomečková

Review / RUN AGAINST THE FLOW

Daniel Grúň about the exhibition of Matej Gavula: Abrasive Society for tranzit.sk

by Daniel Grúň

Hidden cities / WHEN BEAUTY MEETS TRAUMA : 9/11 or one day in the life of the City

by Katarína Poliačiková

Hidden Cities / LEARNING A CITY

How do we learn cities? What is not written anywhere. Not new routes or secret clubs, but the city and our bodies in it. Its rhythm, its movements, gestures, subtle rules.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Trip / KORTRIJK (BE)

Mini travelogue of Kortrijk, Belgium. Non-architectural, non-photographic, non-theoretical, subjective.

by Maroš Greš

Exhibition / PAVEL MAŇKA, LOST AND FOUND

by Naďa Kančevová

Quarantine Book / B IS FOR BAUHAUS

Deyan Sudjic: B is for Bauhaus. London: Penguin Books, 2014

Confrontations / CITY_MYTH

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / POOL_MYTH

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

(UN)SUSTAINABILITY AS TREND AND NECESSARY CONDITION FOR DESIGN

Contribution of Klára Peloušková (CZ), reflecting on the design profession in the context of the climate crisis, was a part of the block of lectures organized by initiative "Nestrácajme čas" within the Bratislava Design Week 2019.

by Klára Peloušková

Interview / KAROL PICHLER

by Ľubica Hustá

Confrontations / POOL_CITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / CITY_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Confrontations / POOL_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Hidden Cities / LONELINESS IS A HIDDEN CITY

by Katarína Poliačiková

Confrontations / MYTH_MODERNITY

The individual texts of the series consist of a juxtaposition of words - City, Myth, Modernity, Pool. The mutual confrontation of pairs of words is not about confirming unambiguous relations, a harmonious whole, but about searching for possible disagreements. The confrontation narrows the wide range of their individual meanings.

by Gabriela Smetanová

Review / UNNOTICED BRATISLAVA RING

Peter Szalay about the exhibition Project Bratislava vol. 2.: Parallel Petržalka in Photoport Gallery

by Peter Szalay

Hidden Cities / LIVING WITH PICASSO

On the wall of one apartment in Koło neighbourhood in Warsaw, there’s a drawing made by Picasso. However, in the last 70 years it was forgotten, which one is it.

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / GUGLIELMO POLETTI (IT) / Consistency and integrity are essential

by Ľubica Hustá

Review / DESIGN AWARDS ALSO NEED REDESIGN

National Design Award – Communication Design 2018

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / ÉRIC JOURDAN (FR), designer

by Martin Franzen

Interview / MISCHER TRAXLER STUDIO (AT) / We are looking for a three dimensional answer to questions

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / MARTIN HRČA, KRISTÝNA ŠPANIHELOVÁ, ETHER

ÉTER collection by Martin Hrča in collaboration with Kristýna Španihelová.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / NASTASSIA ALEINIKAVA / It is vital to understand each other

(Slovenčina) Rozhovor s dizajnérkou šperkov a okuliarov Nastassiou Aleinkava. O živote v Prahe, o stratenej identite v Bielorusku, či o spolupráci s IOKO.

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / TOTALITY IN PARTS. New Peter Biľak’s stage design.

by Ľubica Hustá

Essay / MANHATTANHENGE

"Sometime in early July, the sun reaches a certain position so that its rays align with the parallel streets that crisscross the island from east to west."

by Katarína Poliačiková

Interview / ZDENĚK ENT / Increasing Density Is the Fate of a City

Interview of Fedor Blaščák with architect Zdeněk Ent from the Prague’s Institute of Planning and Development

by Fedor Blaščák

Exhibition / ATTIC + + IVA DURKÁČOVÁ + ĽUBOŠ KOTLÁR + MIRA KUBÁŇOVÁ + MARTINA MÄSIAROVÁ + JÁN SKALIČAN

The Mirbach Palace of the Bratislava City Gallery is hosting the exhibition ATTIC during the summer (10 July - 30 September 2018). The exhibition takes place within the framework of the annual Radislav Matuštík Scholarship. The scholarship is intended for emerging curators. Its current recipient and exhibition curator, architect Gabriela Smetanová, writes about her chained, participatory concept.

by Gabriela Smetanová

New Work / SIMONA JANIŠOVÁ, INSIDEOUT

After the successful Anachronik collection comes Simona Janišová with the Insideout collection. The title suggests personal introspection and tests the notions of box and container.

by Ľubica Hustá

Chair of the 20th century

New Work / TRIVJEDNOM, THE PLAIN

Performative design in triple-unit, or an experiment with the plane.

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / MIKSMITTE, COUNTDOWN

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / ATTILA WEEKEND HOME BY JRKVC

A small scale encourages the Slovak architecture. Well, it mostly encourages the ability to keep the project consistent from the idea to its final implementation. Such is the construction of the Attila weekend home in Vojka nad Dunajom by the architectural studio JRKVC. It has 47 square metres.

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / EMIL TASCHKA, FRAME DNA

Multi-purpose trade fair facility in Petržalka - Incheba by Vladimír Dedeček

Textile curtains by Katarína Šujanová, 1969, Cyprián Majerník Gallery

Exhibition / EMIL TASCHKA / OFF YOU GO OLD MAN

The Bratislava’s new venue studio Bless on Medená Street 16 currently hosts an exhibition of (not just) designer Braňo Laho who works under the penname Emil Taschka. Its title refers to a, mildly said, non-correct Slovak weather lore „It’s March, off you go, old man!“ And not only because of its opening on 1st March.

by Ľubica Hustá

Proposal of skyscrapers for the New City of Prague, Josef Havlíček, 1943-1945

by Michal Janák

Interview / Lev Rubinstein: RUSSIA IS BOTH HORRIBLE AND BEAUTIFUL, AS ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

by Fedor Blaščák

Exhibition / CATCHING WHITE

Jewellery artist Dana Tomečková on the exhibition of Katarína Šipošová in the ČIN ČIN gallery and on intuitive alchemy

by Dana Tomečková

Katarína Poliačiková about Roman Ondák, about time, about Niecéphor Niépceau, about the attention and about project Measuring the Universe.

by Katarína Poliačiková

THE PEDESTRIAN’S VENICE

Peter Michalík about project THE PEDESTRIAN'S VENICE, 2017 by Roberto Casati, Magda Stanová, and Stéphanie Roisin.

by Peter Michalík

Offer study for 4800 apartments by S. Talaš, P. Janča and P. Mrázek, 1984

by Michal Janák

Interview / I DON’T WANT TO FILL THE SPACE WITH MATTER, BECAUSE IT ALREADY IS MATTER

by Ľubica Hustá

PERMANENT RECREATION

by Martin Zaiček

Second Wind in Javorina

Javorina belongs in Slovakia among a few producer who have not resign on craft and design.

by Ľubica Hustá

(Slovenčina) Výstava / KINDER, KÜCHE, KIRCHE V BUNKRI

by Martina Vyskupová

(Slovenčina) Názor / NÁRODNÁ CENA ZA DIZAJN je už konečne menej národná a viac za dizajn

by Ľubica Hustá

Exhibition / KAROL WEISSLECHNERS (MICRO)COZMOS

by Naďa Kančevová

Column / AGAINST THE AESTHETIC OF LOBOTOMY

by Michal Janák

New Work / MONUMENTAL – ANETTA MONA CHISA A LUCIA TKÁČOVÁ

by Ľubica Hustá

Foto story / Fashion Situation

(Slovenčina) Fashion Situácia na BADW 2017. Kateřina Plamintzerová, Markéta Kratochvílová (CZ) a Drevená Helena (SK)

by Ľubica Hustá

New Work / NEW EXPOSITION THE TURIEC´S NATURE IN MUSEUM OF ANDREJ KMEŤ / MARTIN

by Ľubica Hustá

Photo story / ROAD TRIP TO SANTIAGO

The road where there destination (Santiago de Compostela) isnt important, but the road as it is and time. Photograph of Vlasta Kubušová's designer about her travels after the Spanish country.

by Vlasta Kubušová

New Work / DŽADOŇ’S VILLA IN BRNO

by Ľubica Hustá

Need to Push the Borders Further

Interview with Silvia Lovasova

by Ľubica Hustá

Interwiev / DREVENÁ HELENA

by Ľubica Hustá

Interview / JERSZY SEYMOUR: What kind of revolution do we need?

by Fedor Blaščák