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Within the historical and regional context of the Czechoslovak Modern Movement, the paper examines the garden and landscape architectural concepts of the Interwar Modernism in Slovak territory. The research maps the local examples, expressed in various scales and typological forms, from gardens of family houses and villas, through design of outer spaces of school, sanatoria, administration and commercial buildings, up to urban concepts of garden cities and public open spaces at urban scale. The characteristic feat...

The phenomenon of cave inspires to various interpretations in art and architecture. Grotto, this "curious architectural object", is characteristic for garden art of different historical periods and styles, creates a typical feature of historic gardens and parks. The paper presents the evolution of the use of grotto as an architectural garden element in the context of development of garden art in the territory of today's Slovakia. The examples of artificial caves in the setting of historic parks and gardens in the ...