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Dobrović in Dubrovnik; A Venture in Modern Architecture; Krunoslav Ivanišin, Wolfgang Thaler, Ljiljana Blagojević
Dubravko Bačić
Abstract
Dobrović in Dubrovnik traces the past and the present of the 1930s avant-garde modern architecture built in the Mediterranean landscape of the south Dalmatian coast. Extensive historical, theoretical, and phenomenological readings of events and forms, in two essays by architects Krunoslav Ivanišin and Ljiljana Blagojević respectively, describe a specific yet universal Venture in Modern Architecture. Condensed to geographically small area and hardly a decade, these quintessentially modern villas, gardens, and hotels built 70 years ago by the architect Nikola Dobroviæ (1897-1967), are presented through previously unpublished original design drawings, b&w period photographs, and the contemporary color photographs by Wolfgang Thaler. The color plates depict the beauty in decay of heroic works of modern architecture and admirably convey their meaningful Mediterranean resilience.
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165188
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Publication date:
30.6.2016.
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