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Alpine reflections and Plitvice Lakes National Park

How to build in the Alps is a topic that has been widely debated in the field of architectural history and theory, and which we can see in the work of Bruno Reichlin or Antonio De Rossi’s thorough research on the history of construction in the Alps. They both explore the thesis about the Alps as a laboratory of architectural modernism. Croatian Plitvice Lakes National Park geographically and climatically belongs to the mountain landscape, and the landscape transformation and activities developed in the Park correspond to the development and typology of tourism in the Alps, but Park construction has not been adequately researched. This paper presents construction proposals and spatial planning in the period between the two world wars, when tourism in Plitvice was developed and infrastructure was built. The development of the concept of space from utopia to rationalism over a period of a decade is presented, with examples of a utopian plan for the construction of a tourist town from the late 1920s versus the 1940s hotel proposal which demonstrated rigid rationalism and functionalism. Plitvice tourist town is the work of Vlatko Vidmar, an architect who studied in Vienna, and it is a unique example of expressionism in the spatial planning of Croatia. The protagonists of the 1940s hotel proposal were the new generation of young architects who portrayed mature modernism and contemporary architectural thought before World War II. This paper explores the influence of Bruno Taut’s work and alpine development and construction models had on Plitvice. It also brings new insight on the discourse inherent for the time period because its influence can be found outside the geographical area of the Alps but within the Central European cultural circle. In conclusion, it sheds new light on the previously insufficiently explored segment of Croatian modern architecture history.

architecture ; Plitvice Lakes ; tourism development

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