Emil Belluš [SEP] occupation
Emil Belluš
Emil Belluš (1899–1979) was a Slovak functionalist architect.
Career.
Emil Belluš began his studies at the Technical University in Budapest in 1918, but completed them at the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1923. He then returned to Slovakia where he became a founding member of the Association of Slovak Artists (later the Slovak Architects Society, of which he was president 1945–1953) and of the Slovak Rowing Club. He designed the clubhouse for the rowing club.
While working in an international functionalist style
period, the palace was adapted by Emil Belluš and became the seat of the president of the First Slovak Republic (i.e. of Jozef Tiso). During the Communist era, it was first (after 1945) the seat of the Council of Commissioners (also styled Corps of Plenipotentiaries), which was a quasi-government of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia. In 1950, the building was turned into the "Klement Gottwald House of Pioneers and Youth" ("Dom pionierov a mládeže Klementa Gottwalda"), which was an activity center