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For a New, More Beautiful Zagreb! Architectural and Planning Competitions of Interwar Zagreb, 1918-1941; Tamara Bjažić Klarin

Mia Roth Čerina orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-5825 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture, Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

Architectural competitions are one of a few almost uninterrupted local architectural traditions, a continuity that few segments of our cultural and public activities can boast of. The institution of a planning or architectural competition was founded more than a hundred years ago with the same motivation and conviction that drives its promoters today, but - as the book by the architect and PhD Tamara Bjažić Klarin shows - suffers from equally unchanged, symptomatic chronic problems. By documenting all aspects of the procedures related to the institute of the architectural competition in Zagreb, and the role they played in the positioning of architects and the formal organization of the profession, the book “For a New, More Beautiful Zagreb!” is a long­awaited key to reading the realized and potential history of Zagreb in a period of its significant transformation and its modernist identity’s articulation. This book is both entertaining and tense, a self­diagnostic insight into the best and worst features of Zagreb’s architectural scene, summarizing the on­going ambitions and idealisms which help us understand why competitions are both the best mode of action and an unattainable goal. [Translated by Mia Roth-Čerina]

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Hrčak ID:

248720

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/248720

Publication date:

31.12.2020.

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