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MODERNITY IN CROATIA – THEMATIC FRAMES Initiators of change

“Nations build great and important buildings only in those periods, in which they are allowed to enjoy settled political and economic circumstances for a longer period of time. In all of its long history, the Croatian people had very few such periods. Whenever the fate was merciful and allowed some peaceful years to enter the life of the Croatian people, it regularly gave evidence of its great artistic abilities”, (end quote) as architect Vladimir Potočnjak began his article on Croatian architecture in 1939, on the occasion of the exhibition “Half a Century of Croatian art”. Yesterday, after we saw the presentation of “Project Zagreb” by Eve Blau and Ivan Rupnik we all understood that after each 20 or 30 years in Croatia was a new period of intense political turmoil and radical social transformations, a new period in which architecture was an important factor in the programme of overall modernization, and also a period of constructing meaning: in relation to the complex national history, cultural traditions, opposed political programmes, and identities. Different state administrations – different legislations, models, initiatives. I would like to present through pictures several transformation phases of mostly urban areas in Croatia...

nitiators of change; Urban planning; Collective living – semi-utopian life; Building type

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