VAL

Voies et Aspectes du Lendemain/Ways and Aspects of Tomorrow was a Slovak experimental architecture group. The group consisted of artist Alex Mlynárčik and architects Viera Mecková and Ľudovít Kupkovič, who gradually began to develop their visions together. Between 1968 and 1994 they created eight projects of "prospective architecture".

Works

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  Heliopolis, project for an Olympic City in the High Tatras, 1968-1974.

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  Heliopolis scheme, 1968-70.

Publications

• VAL. Cesty a aspekty zajtrajška, Žilina, 1995. (Slovak)

Literature

• Katarzyna Cytlak, "L’architecture prospective en Tchécoslovaquie. Convergences et divergences entre l’approche du groupe slovaque VAL (1968–1994) et la théorie architecturale de Michel Ragon", RIHA Journal (International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art), Sep 2017, pp 1-30. (French)

• Peter Szalay, "Architektonická skupina VAL – Voies et Aspectes du Lendemain (Cesty a aspekty zajtrajška)", Magda, Oct 2017. (Slovak)

• Monika Kicová, Architektúra skupiny VAL, Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2019, 117 pp. Master's thesis. (Slovak)

• Natália Mrázová, "VAL: Slovenská architektonická poézia, ktorá oponuje realite", ASB, Apr 2021. (Slovak)

• Gabriela Smetanová, "Overview of Past and Present Discourse on VAL", ALFA 4, Bratislava: Faculty of Architecture and Design of the Slovak Technical University, 2021. (English)

• Gabriela Smetanová, "VAL v pyramíde", Artalk, 27 Jun 2024. Exh. review. (Slovak)