Ars Adriatica, No. 7, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.1377
Housing Culture in Zadar during the 1950s: The affirmation of Modernism
Jasna Galjer
orcid.org/0000-0001-8448-0766
; Department of Art History, Faulty of Humanities, Unversity of Zagreb
Anđela Galić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3002-8472
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zagreb
Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of exhibitions dedicated to the housing culture in Zadar during the 1950s, in the context of post-war rebuilding and the affirmation of modern urbanity. The author analyses the specificities of these exhibitions, especially their ideological and educational aspects, using The Housing Community as a case study: an exhibition organized in Zadar in 1960 as part of the Family and Household event series. The complex meaning of the exhibition as a medium in the process of social modernization and the significance of quality housing are discussed. The aim has been to analyse the conceptual framework defining the living space and the quality of housing as the central issues of ideology, everyday experience and collective memory in the given period, as well as to identify some of the basic differences and changes in meaning with regard to our present times.
Keywords
history of design; the 1950s; Zadar; exhibitions on housing; housing culture
Hrčak ID:
191258
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2017.
Visits: 4.218 *