The architectural heritage in Slovakia is essential for building up its cultural and national identity. Therefore, its protection and presentation is underpinned by the legislative system. The dissertation deals with an architect's role in the process of the architectural heritage presentation. The analytical part of the dissertation defines the process of the architectural heritage presentation -- including the relevant legislative framework, stages and central positions with the most significant effect on its outcome. In this context, the issue of creativity is also examined. Furthermore, the text focuses on the foundations and tools for the architectural heritage presentation, while analysing the new suggested activities in the light of their objective, the monument restoration choices depending on the monument value and its suggested function. The Chapter 4 focuses on an architectural heritage presentation project, defining materials and forms as integral parts of the new suggested elements and analysing their possible combinations in the creative process, in order to achieve the required outcome. It comments on the style characteristics and evaluation process of a complete cultural heritage presentation project. In the research part of the work, the central topic concerns the presence of an architect in a role of a project architect in the architectural heritage presentation process on the Slovak territory within a set out period starting from 2002, when the act of the National Council no. 49/2002 Z. z. on the protection of monuments and historic sites entered into force. The main source of information is a document entitled Evaluation of the completed renovation actions of the national cultural heritage monuments, which is drawn up every year by the individual regional Monuments Boards. The research analyses which types of new activities included an architect and what was his or her role in the architectural heritage presentation. The Chapter 6 examines the practical weaknesses in the architectural heritage presentation process, using the research method of a structured face-to-face interview with targeted respondents from different positions in the process, as well as public discussion. The Chapter 7 is devoted to the evaluation of the implemented architectural heritage presentation projects and to the issue of tenders to guarantee the quality of projects. In the Chapter 8, possible architect's creative approaches to the architectural heritage presentation are illustrated on the specific examples and Chapter 9 provides an example of research by design the architectural heritage presentation. The final part of the dissertation sums up the results of the research in a form of the verification of the hypotheses set out in the introduction.