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The Berlage Affair; Vedran Mimica

Darko Kahle

Abstract

The book The Berlage Affair circumscribes the teaching career of Professor Vedran Mimica, from the School of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, through the former Berlage Institute in Amsterdam and later in Rotterdam, to the current Illinois Institute of Technology Architecture College in Chicago. Having the opportunity to pertain to the circle of architects and lecturers as Tadao Ando, Wiel Arets, Kenneth Frampton or Herman Hertzberger, he introduced Croatian colleagues to the global architectural network. Learning psychology in high school and being acquainted with typological approach of contemporary Zagreb School of Architecture, he discovered the Dutch structuralism. The book emphasizes interacting with students in both directions as one of basic approaches of the recent architectural theory and criticism in the shape of seminaries, interviews and workshops, therefore possesses a documentary value. His decision to include Zagreb and the Dalmatian coast in the process during the challenging time of the post-war and EU-negotiations Croatia was tremendous for the history and theory of recent movements in Croatian Architecture.

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Hrčak ID:

213785

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/213785

Publication date:

30.12.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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