Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.2929

The Role of Alfred Albini in the Design and Construction of the Croatian Cultural Centre in Sušak, and Its Completion and Alterations

Julija Lozzi Barković orcid.org/0000-0002-8637-5836 ; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanitiies, University of Rijeka
Lidija Butković Mićin orcid.org/0000-0003-0627-0119 ; Department of Art History, University of Zadar

Abstract

The Croatian Cultural Centre in Sušak is one of the most significant modernist buildings in the Rijeka region, which moreover enjoys a prominent status in the whole of 20th-century modern architecture in Croatia. In this paper, based on the systematic analysis of previously unconsidered archival material, the research focus is on Alfred Albini’s design variants in concept and performance, as well as on the qualitative analysis of the construction itself. Special emphasis has been placed on the hotel part of the complex, for which the course of Albini’s decisions about the ground-plan layout and articulation of the exterior has been reconstructed, and on the completion and alterations during the post-war and later years, which contributed to the overall definition of this complex architectural assembly.

Keywords

Croatian Cultural Centre; Sušak; Rijeka; Alfred Albini; modernist architecture

Hrčak ID:

231291

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/231291

Publication date:

24.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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