In Slovakia, there are not many architectural works of art which can connect nature with a manmade functional structure, rigor and logic of construction with the poetry of a work of art in such a natural way. The Summer Swimming Pool “Zelená žaba” (Green Frog) in Trenčianske Teplice is undoubtedly one such work. By its essentially modest architecture, the distinguished architect Bohuslav Fuchs (1895 – 1972), from Brno, managed to create a work of art that belongs to the most valuable monuments of functionalism, not only in Slovakia but also in a broader European context. In the 1930s, the spa town...