Brutalism in Slovakia

Slovakia's brutalist heritage dates from the Czechoslovak building boom of the 1960s and 1970s, when Bratislava and regional capitals received boldly engineered concrete public buildings. Vladimír Dedeček was the most prolific figure; his Addition to the Slovak National Gallery (1977) bridges a Danube-front courtyard on massive trusses and long divided opinion before its recent restoration. Dušan Kuzma, working with sculptor Jozef Jankovič, created the Múzeum Slovenského Národného Povstania (Museum of the Slovak National Uprising) (1969) in Banská Bystrica, two concrete segments split by a memorial passage. Ferdinand Milučký contributed refined cultural buildings such as the House of Arts (Dom Umenia) (1979) in Piešťany.