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Prostor : a scholarly journal of architecture and urban planning, Vol. 2 No. 3-4(7-8), 1994.

Review article

Typology of Zagreb fountains

Tihomir Jukić

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Abstract

Water as a medium played an important role in shaping the public urban areas of Zagreb, defining some of Its finest neighborhods.

ln the last hundred years the fountain as a form has ben continuously present in Zagreb. In different periods water and fountains were evaluated in different ways. Fountains are a composite part of architectural solutions and the urban environment and they should be observed and studled ln that context, not neglecting their art and aesthetic value. It is necessary to study their typology more systematically and try to define to model, i.e. the prototype of the Zagreb fountain.

Fountains are analyzed with regard to their placement in their surroundings, their shape and form, and typlogical model, the time when they were made is given, their size and the contents with which they are usually linked, and their continuity in a location.

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Hrčak ID:

30770

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/30770

Publication date:

30.6.1994.

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