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During the 1960s and 1970s, interdisciplinary collaborations among architects, designers, and artists represented an important aspect of Croatian architecture. This paper examines the institutional frameworks and conditions that facilitated such integrative practices. It recognizes the key participants and underscores a change in the underlying motives and other contributing factors for their collaborations across the decades. The paper also classifies the predominant building types resulting from such collaborations and prevalent social and political ambitions. Specific examples, such as institutional buildings, tourist facilities, and commercial buildings, illustrate the outcomes of these interdisciplinary endeavours. The analysis offers insights into the underlying factors and significance of these collaborations in shaping Croatian architectural practices during this period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Villa Karma's authorship is as a rule ascribed to Adolf Loos. According to most accounts, the villa was formed by taking an existing structure and extending it upwards and sideways, in the period between 1903 and 1906. However, as a matter of fact, at that time the construction of the new parts and the transformation of the existing building had only just begun. The period in which the Zagreb architect Hugo Ehrlich was involved in the design and building of Karma stretched from 1908 to 1912; it was then that the villa took on its final external appearance. At the same time the grounds were landscaped, and the interior spaces were defined according to Ehrlich's designs. The hall and the library are an exception, for Ehrlich produced them in line with Loos's approach and in part with materials already sourced. An examination of the documentation kept in three countries has shown that the claim that Ehrlich was just the contractor for the building of designs previously defined by Loos is untenable. The original style can be correlated with a series of formal motifs in the works of Hugo Ehrlich or Viktor Kovačić at the time they were working together, which was contemporaneous with the period in which Karma was undergoing its finalisation. The most telling confirmation of Ehrlich's work consists of several hundred drawings from Ehrlich's personal papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chair design is one of the most demanding and most challenging tasks for designers, to which creative efforts of numerous architects have been continuously linked. Since the beginning of the twentieth century the intensity of these efforts has not diminished. By creating an ideal microcosm around an essential everyday object, architects also express their understanding of space and time. A chair, like architecture, occupies a position in space that it also defines. The paper analyses three groups of chairs characteristic of the 20th century, different in terms of typology and morphology. Their architectonics are marked by a specific functional, formal and constructive idea, by concrete production possibilities and by technological procedures in the working of individual materials. Notably, reclining chairs, cantilever chairs with steel tube constructions and office chairs. The model of analysis put forward could also serve as a point of departure for future more extensive research into the same, or different, typological and morphological design. Three Croatian chair models are placed in the context of the pertaining design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the architecture of Bartol Felbinger in the context of the relevant and positively evaluated conceptual levels of design. The architect's work is thus perceived in the context of building up the City of Zagreb and the initiation of Croatian Modern architecture. Furthermore, the paper looks into Classicism and Biedermeir inherently linked with Felbinger's work. They are viewed here in the context of the architectural culture of continental Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a contribution to the knowledge about the 1980s postmodern architecture in the city of Split. It is focused on the Brodomerkur Office Building as an outstanding example of postmodern office space at the urban heart of Split. The study analyses the building's urban and architectural features, which are evaluated in both the local and global context. Brodomerkur's unique design makes it an architectural gem worthy of landmark status and preservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a special type of innovative light structural systems under the name of tensegrity. The paper looks into their history, gives a summary of design issues and analyzes some examples of its practical application. These structures require a close cooperation between an architect and a structural engineer from the very beginning. Knowledge of design and in particular of structural principles will certainly contribute to its wider applicability in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The oeuvre of Professor Neven Šegvić lives on like an open book in which architects, depending on their tendencies and current interests can always establish a creative dialogue about architecture. An analysis of Šegvić's oeuvre has led to the hypothesis of the existence of his methodologically defined creative approach to the discipline of architecture. Ten key determinants constitute the sources of his professional, theoretical and educational body of work which are presented in this paper as elements of a modern, open methodological cycle. Šegvić's entire work is tenable continuous consideration on architecture. This paper is therefore a contribution to the analysis of his work as a process of shaping a personal approach to architecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the first in a series of papers envisaged to systematically present the oeuvre of architect Alfred Albini, which is not quantitatively significant since it includes about fifty works, fifteen of which have been realized. However, with their quality, nine of his buildings stand out in the history of Croatian modern architecture, most of them counting as architectural classics. Chronologically approached and morphologically analyzed these works can loosely be grouped into two main sections: early works (1927-35) and mature works (1935-64). This paper deals with Albini's early architectural accomplishments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the research of archival sources and other documents, the paper presents the Co-op Hotel in Ulcinj built by Hinko Bauer and Marijan Haberle which opened in 1939. This remarkable example of Croatian modernism takes a special place among the architectural works of the interwar period in Montenegro, while being at the same time the first modern hotel on the Montenegrin coast. The hotel was reconstructed after the 1979 earthquake and demolished in 2007. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Landscape urbanism, primarily a critical response to a lack of current vision of space, has grown in the last fifteen years into a modern spatial paradigm clearly aimed at integrating theoretical and practical principles of space-related disciplines. This paper is a research into the historical, practical and theoretical context of its origin, a reaction in professional circles as well as its application within the framework of a contemporary advanced professional training of future architects and urban planners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper classifies the Cypriot Art Déco and addresses it, for the first time, as the dominating modernist variant of the 1930s-1940s in Cyprus. We argue that, out of several Art Déco trends, the Mendelsohnian streamline moderne is by far the prevalent and is characterized by a common, rounded architectural morphology. Main sources of this "Mediterranean Art Déco", more or less immediate, are primarily France, England, Athens, and a now partially anonymous local architectural elite. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper looks into the religious architecture of Tomislav Premerl between 1964 and 2012. His work encompassing 28 built structures and 14 projects and competition entries is researched here in the context of the paradigm shifts in the 20th century architecture as well as the new theological and liturgical guidelines drawn up by the 1965 Second Vatican Council. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number and quality of industrial architectural designs and accomplishments by architect Lavoslav Horvat have been unprecedented in Croatian architectural history. Their analysis and assessment thus contribute to the valuation of Croatian post-war architectural theory and practice. The Duro Dakovic factory of wagons, machines and bridges in Slavonski Brod, Dalmatinka factory of yarn and thread in Sinj and the TEZ light bulb factory in Zagreb are Horvat's three most significant works discussed in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents residential buildings by architect Frano Gotovac built in the 1970s in Split 3. Although the Project Plan and Standard Technical Description partially restricted his architectural freedom, Gotovac overcame numerous limiting circumstances and created buildings of distinctive exterior appearance, with which he continued his previous formal exploration of large-volume residential buildings and geometrical articulation of large-scale facades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although characteristic for his entire oeuvre, Boris Krstulović's design method is analyzed in this paper in relation to the 1960 residential building on Petretić Square in Zagreb. Placed within Croatian and international architectural trends the building reveals features of the Zagreb school of architecture. It shows the architect's critical assimilation of world trends, distance from the current production and the creation of an anthological work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an analysis of texts written by Camillo Boito, an Italian architect, theoretician and critic of architecture and restoration, in the 1860s. The texts were published in the newspaper La Perseveranza and the journals Il Politecnico and Nuova Antologia. By analysing Boito's tractates on competitions, current state of architectural design and the need for the creation of a national architecture the author places texts within a political context of the Italian unification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper gives an analysis buildings designed by architect Fran Gotovac and erected in 1970 -1980 in the northern part of Spinut. By designing these buildings as large-scale collective housing projects Gotovac made a significant departure from the usual architectural practice of the period. Compared to the typical estates, his works contributed to the organization and urban design of housing estates with high habitation density. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an analysis of the villa that used to belong to the ban (governor) of Savska banovina (province), Ivo Perović, and which is known today as "ban's villa" (21 Upper Street). It was designed by architect Egon Steinmann and built in 1932 in the historic centre of Rab. Its traditional architectural style differentiates it from the majority of Steinmann's interwar public buildings built in Zagreb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a selection of 40 categorized and analyzed projects and realizations between 1923-1941 designed by the architect Vladimir Sterk in the Zagreb area. The analysis shows clarity in plan composition, skillful application of various structural systems and permanent changes in the design including the insertion of classical elements into a clean facade surface and the interruption of a cubic body with classical forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives an analysis and an evaluation of design aspects and spatial organization of five selected single-family houses designed by the architect Zdravko Bregovac throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In spite of the fact that they were designed and built for various purposes ranging from a holiday house (Blaževk house) to an urban detached residential house (Hanžek house), the theme of individual housing is here linked with the architect's entire architectural oeuvre. The analyzed examples reveal their tourist-related purpose and partly the design process applied to other hotel buildings designed by the same architect at nearby sites in a particular period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]