Marián Marcinka is the laureate of the Emil Belluš Award 2005
The Presidency of the Slovak Architects' Association has decided to award the Emil Belluš Award for the year 2005. The SAS awards this prize annually for a lifetime achievement in the field of architecture. This year’s laureate is Marián Marcinka.
The work of this year’s laureate of the Emil Belluš Award is primarily concentrated in the area of school buildings, structures for science and research, and cultural buildings, including the reconstruction and renewal of heritage buildings. Architect Marián Marcinka is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Bratislava. He studied during a time when prominent figures such as Vladimír Karfík, Emil Belluš, Jan E. Koula, Emanuel Hruška, Alfréd Piffl, and other significant personalities of Slovak architecture were active at the faculty.
Architect Marián Marcinka’s professional career began at the State Planning Institute for Urban Construction (Stavoprojekt) in Bratislava. Here, he worked in the studio for designing school buildings. Projects realized during this period include several schools (Harichovce, Bošáca, Jur nad Hronom, Holice, Súľov). The most well-known work from this period is the elementary school in Bratislava - Prievoz (1957 - 1961). It was created in an atmosphere of promoting innovative approaches in architecture, as well as a result of new trends in pedagogy. Today, it is perceived as a representative work of Slovak architecture of the 1960s.
The experiences gained in designing and planning school buildings were utilized by architect Marcinka in founding the Institute for the Development and Design of Educational and Cultural Buildings, where he also served as director. In this institute, he developed concepts for designing university dormitories and colleges in Czechoslovakia. Among the most significant works is the Student Dormitory of the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina (with Brtko, Dukát, Gáborík, and Poláková), realized between 1965 and 1970.
Based on a competition win (1967), he developed an urban planning solution for the reconstruction and completion of the premises of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava at Patrónka.
Since 1968, he worked in the Association of Project Studios at the Union of Slovak Architects, which later transformed into the Project Organization for Construction Works and in 1973 into the State Design and Typification Institute in Bratislava. He continued with tasks related to the completion and reconstruction of the SAS complex. He is the author of the building for the Central Management of the SAS Complex (Institute of Experimental Surgery), the Virology Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and other buildings on the premises; studies for the Physics Institute, Institute of Landscape Biology, Botanical Institute, and Institute of Machine Mechanics were not realized, as well as the design for the Institute of Social Sciences of the SAS on Dunajská Street in Bratislava, due to a lack of financial resources. The 1970s and early 1980s included the realizations of the State Timber Research Institute (1971 - 1980; with Žbirko), the Research Institute of Paper and Cellulose (1972 - 1982; with Rutska and Majerský), the building of the Central Computing Center, and the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the SAS (1976 to 1982), all in Bratislava - Patrónka.
During his tenure at the Project Institute of Culture in Bratislava, he realized the Cultural-Social Center for the High Tatras in Starý Smokovec (1983; with Gall, Polakovičová, and Kanč), developed a number of proposals and studies for other cultural facilities (study for the House of Culture in Poprad), including interiors, reconstructions of heritage structures (design for the reconstruction of the Žemberovský House in Banská Štiavnica at Trojičné námestie), etc. Since 1993, he has been working in his private architectural and design studio. This period is characterized by projects to restore the J. G. Tajovský Theatre in Zvolen, the restoration and reconstruction of Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava as a permanent residence of the president of the republic, as well as the management of restoration projects for the baroque garden near the presidential palace (1999).
To date, architect Marcinka has realized around 60 buildings and interiors and participated in more than 20 architectural, urban planning, or combined competitions, where he has received several top awards.
Alongside his architectural work, Marián Marcinka has also been engaged in publication activities. In addition to dozens of articles in professional journals, he is a co-author of the book publication New Directions in School Construction (co-authored with S. Karfíková and V. Karfík; Bratislava 1963); as an author of entries in the field of architecture, he contributed to the creation of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slovak Visual Art (Bratislava 1967).
The Emil Belluš Award will be ceremonially presented to Marián Marcinka on November 16, 2005, at 5:00 PM in the Dušan Jurkovič Hall, Panská 15, Bratislava.
The work of this year’s laureate of the Emil Belluš Award is primarily concentrated in the area of school buildings, structures for science and research, and cultural buildings, including the reconstruction and renewal of heritage buildings. Architect Marián Marcinka is a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Bratislava. He studied during a time when prominent figures such as Vladimír Karfík, Emil Belluš, Jan E. Koula, Emanuel Hruška, Alfréd Piffl, and other significant personalities of Slovak architecture were active at the faculty.
Architect Marián Marcinka’s professional career began at the State Planning Institute for Urban Construction (Stavoprojekt) in Bratislava. Here, he worked in the studio for designing school buildings. Projects realized during this period include several schools (Harichovce, Bošáca, Jur nad Hronom, Holice, Súľov). The most well-known work from this period is the elementary school in Bratislava - Prievoz (1957 - 1961). It was created in an atmosphere of promoting innovative approaches in architecture, as well as a result of new trends in pedagogy. Today, it is perceived as a representative work of Slovak architecture of the 1960s.
The experiences gained in designing and planning school buildings were utilized by architect Marcinka in founding the Institute for the Development and Design of Educational and Cultural Buildings, where he also served as director. In this institute, he developed concepts for designing university dormitories and colleges in Czechoslovakia. Among the most significant works is the Student Dormitory of the University of Transport and Communications in Žilina (with Brtko, Dukát, Gáborík, and Poláková), realized between 1965 and 1970.
Based on a competition win (1967), he developed an urban planning solution for the reconstruction and completion of the premises of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava at Patrónka.
Since 1968, he worked in the Association of Project Studios at the Union of Slovak Architects, which later transformed into the Project Organization for Construction Works and in 1973 into the State Design and Typification Institute in Bratislava. He continued with tasks related to the completion and reconstruction of the SAS complex. He is the author of the building for the Central Management of the SAS Complex (Institute of Experimental Surgery), the Virology Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and other buildings on the premises; studies for the Physics Institute, Institute of Landscape Biology, Botanical Institute, and Institute of Machine Mechanics were not realized, as well as the design for the Institute of Social Sciences of the SAS on Dunajská Street in Bratislava, due to a lack of financial resources. The 1970s and early 1980s included the realizations of the State Timber Research Institute (1971 - 1980; with Žbirko), the Research Institute of Paper and Cellulose (1972 - 1982; with Rutska and Majerský), the building of the Central Computing Center, and the Institute of Technical Cybernetics of the SAS (1976 to 1982), all in Bratislava - Patrónka.
During his tenure at the Project Institute of Culture in Bratislava, he realized the Cultural-Social Center for the High Tatras in Starý Smokovec (1983; with Gall, Polakovičová, and Kanč), developed a number of proposals and studies for other cultural facilities (study for the House of Culture in Poprad), including interiors, reconstructions of heritage structures (design for the reconstruction of the Žemberovský House in Banská Štiavnica at Trojičné námestie), etc. Since 1993, he has been working in his private architectural and design studio. This period is characterized by projects to restore the J. G. Tajovský Theatre in Zvolen, the restoration and reconstruction of Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava as a permanent residence of the president of the republic, as well as the management of restoration projects for the baroque garden near the presidential palace (1999).
To date, architect Marcinka has realized around 60 buildings and interiors and participated in more than 20 architectural, urban planning, or combined competitions, where he has received several top awards.
Alongside his architectural work, Marián Marcinka has also been engaged in publication activities. In addition to dozens of articles in professional journals, he is a co-author of the book publication New Directions in School Construction (co-authored with S. Karfíková and V. Karfík; Bratislava 1963); as an author of entries in the field of architecture, he contributed to the creation of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slovak Visual Art (Bratislava 1967).
The Emil Belluš Award will be ceremonially presented to Marián Marcinka on November 16, 2005, at 5:00 PM in the Dušan Jurkovič Hall, Panská 15, Bratislava.
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