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Project code: 6-02-123

ARCHITECTURE OF THE 19TH TO THE MIDDLE OF 20TH CENTURY - THE STYLE AND THE CITY

Main researcher: ČORAK, ŽELJKA (8352)

Assistants

IVANČEVIĆ, RADOVAN (17183)
MARUŠEVSKI, OLGA (69670)
KNEŽEVIĆ, SNJEŽANA (141776)
FRANKOVIĆ, EUGEN (12470)

Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 01/01/95.

Papers on project (total): 71

Institution name: Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb (20)

Communication: Phone: 385 (0)538 060, 538 022; Fax: 385 (0)537 613

Summary: The project is analyzing the results of the individual architectural monuments (and entire oeuvres) with their urban (and regional) context. A valorization of architecture is conducted from the point of view of urban values of the objects. Significance of the cities and landscapes are analyzed as the results of individual oeuvres. Structural elements of architecture have been identified as style formants of the city and landscape (facades of the houses, flow and dynamism of the street, formation of the corners - rhythm and vista, building materials - reality and evasion, sky-line - architecture and metaphor, etc.). Architecture, horticulture and urbanism are interpreted within the history of culture. A part of the research is, because of war circumstances, dedicated to negative phenomena of "style and city" - represented by the analysis of the monuments and cities destruction. Within the work on the project , a lots of papers have been published during last tree years: an important individual buildings, building ensembles, and architects from Zagreb and Croatia, have been elaborated. Special accent is put on the period of historicism. It is important to realize that the upper time limit put into the middle of 20th century proves to be untenable, because major architectural oeuvres, as well as the problems that could be followed up to the present.

Keywords: architecture, style, town, historicism, expressionism, secession, first half of the 20th century, Croatia, Zagreb, Herman Bolle, Milan Lenuci, Stjepan Planić,

Research goals: The goals of the project are to fill in major chronological and topographic gaps, elaboration of representative phenomena in Croatian architecture and urbanism of 19th and 20th century; development of the interpretation of relations between object and the context. Expected results encounter monographs of individual architectural oeuvres (Herman Bolle, Stjepan PlaniŠ, Milan Lenuci, Juraj Neidhardt), urban units ("Zelena potkova", Maksimir, Mirogoj, Zrinjevac, Railway colony), and a comprehensive survey of the historicism, secession and expressionist architecture in Zagreb.

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