Date and time:
May 20, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM
Location:
Walter Rózsi Villa, 10 Bajza Street, 1071 Budapest, Hungary
About the programme:
Henrieta Moravčíková is a Slovak architectural historian, senior researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and professor at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, widely recognized for her influential work on 20th- and 21st-century architecture. As chair of the Slovak working party of DOCOMOMO, she plays a key role in the documentation and preservation of modern architectural heritage.
As part of the accompanying program of the “Breuer, Goldfinger and Other Magyars – Brutalist Architecture in and out of Hungary” exhibition, she will give a presentation titled “Slovak Variant of Modernism?” at the Walter Rózsi Villa. The lecture will be held in English.
Our event may be recorded in both image and audio formats, which we may use on our website and social media platforms.
About Henrieta Moravčíková:
Moravčíková works as a senior researcher and head of the Department of Architecture at the Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Since 2014, she has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at STU in Bratislava, where she is actively engaged in both research and critical discourse on 20th- and 21st-century architecture. She is an editor and editorial board member of the scientific journal Architektúra & Urbanizmus, and between 1997 and 2009 she served as editor-in-chief of the monthly ARCH on Architecture and Other Culture.
Her scholarly output includes several monographs and dozens of studies and critiques focusing primarily on 20th-century architecture, alongside numerous curated exhibitions. In collaboration with Matúš Dulla, she co-authored the landmark monograph 20th Century Architecture in Slovakia (Slovart, 2002), and co-edited the first synoptic overview Architecture in Slovakia: Concise History (Slovart, 2005).
Her contributions to architectural theory have been recognized multiple times with the Prize of the Slovak Literary Fund and the Prize of Martin Kusý for outstanding theoretical work in architecture.