Crematorium Bratislava ― At the End of the Road.

The publication is about the outstanding architectural masterpiece which is the crematorium in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It was built a half of century ago (in 1968) under extremely favorable circumstances. Before that, there was a long battle that started back in 1889 to establish the institution of the crematory. The book presents the history of a modern cremation movement in Europe with the consideration of the long battle of Bratislava City to establish a crematorium, it focuses on international, but also local architectural stimulations, that influenced the architecture of the object. Besides the story of the building itself and the funeral garden, the public will find out about the creative work of the author of the building, architect Ferdinand Milucký, who was a member of the first Slovak postwar architectural generation. The texts of Matúš Dulla in English and Slovak are accompanied by the art photographs of Olja Triaška Stefanovic, that gently capture the changes of crematorium and it's surroundings during different seasons. The book is published on the 50th anniversary of the first Slovak crematory.

Prof. Ing. arch. Matúš Dulla, DrSc. was born in 1950 in ?ilina, Slovakia. He is leading historian of the 20th century Slovak architecture. Dulla studied architecture at the Slovak technical university in Bratislava (1974) and received the degree of a professor (2000). He also worked at Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava focusing on the history of architecture of the 20th century and he was Editor-in-Chief of a magazine Architecture & Urbanism. His famous books are Architecture of Slovakia in the 20th Century (2002 with H. Moravcíková) and Architect Emil Belluš (2010) – about the founder of modern architecture in Slovakia. He is the Head of the Department of Architectural Theory and History Faculty of Architecture Czech technical university in Prague. He was awarded many times in Slovakia for his theoretic work.