Industrial architecture built during the second half of the 20th century has already acquired its place in the professional debate on industrial heritage research and protection. However, industrial buildings from the 1950s through the 1980s, though often of notable architectural, typological and technological interest, representing the development of productive-technology efforts of that era, still occupy only the fringe of professional interest. However, ongoing research on the architectural heritage of this period shows that the topic is extremely vital and affects the overall position of research and protection of post-war architecture in the Czech Republic. In terms of identification and evaluation of post-war architecture, there is a consensus on general and specific values, as recently defined in the Conservation Methodology for the Buildings of the Second Half of the 20th Century1, published in 2020 as an outcome of the NAK II grant dealing with the conservation of the 1960s and 1970s buildings. This document focuses the evaluation criteria on the development of form and aesthetics, construction, structural materials, and also artistic details in architecture. The text summarizes current efforts toward inventory work, which the authors deal with along multiple lines. It also addresses an essential issue of interpreting general characteristics, without which it is impossible to understand and further interpret the inventories. And finally, it discusses in more detail the issue of the importance of architectural competitions in design practice. The results should help in the discussion on the recognition, protection, and/or re-use of these buildings.
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