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The Architectonics of Miroslav Begović

Andrija Mutnjaković

Abstract

Influential Croatian architect and university professor Miroslav Begović (1925 - 2004) was the author of a great number of planned and constructed buildings, interior designs, theoretical discussions and editorial publishings. Begović’s architectonics are presented through a few selected projects: the Exhibition Pavilion in Zagreb, the Gallery of Naïve Art in Hlebine, the Modern Gallery in Zagreb, Atelier Ivan Meštrović in Zagreb, Varteks department stores in Zagreb and Varaždin, the Tkalčićeva- Radićeva residential-commercial block in Zagreb, Hotel Eden in Rovinj. An observation of the architectural conceptions of these works makes visible Begović’s understanding of architectural heritage and creative interpretation of recent architectural discoveries within the framework of the theses of regionalism, mimicry, dichotomy, metabolism, kinetics, biomorphology and homocentrism.

Keywords

Miroslav Begović; the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts; architectonic projects

Hrčak ID:

99226

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/99226

Publication date:

5.2.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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