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This paper presents new facts, hitherto unpublished in Croatia, concerning the life and work of Selman Selmanagić, the well-known Berlin architect, designer and professor. The life of this successful Bosniak was saturated with influences from the various cultures and communities in which he lived, studied and worked. He was born in Srebrenica, and went to school in Sarajevo, Ljubljana and Dessau. He spent the majority of his working life in Berlin where, among other activities, he led the Department of Architecture at the Kunsthochschule for twenty years. The article focuses on his life, the development of his rich career and all of his most important achievements. It is of particular interest that he actively took part as a main consultant in the renovation project of the Bauhaus building in Dessau in 1975. [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 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]

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]