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Building as Monument:

Traditionally, monuments are considered to be non- functional, autonomous objects placed either on the sites of historic event, or in exposed urban or natural settings. In socialist Yugoslavia, plethora of new and experimental approaches to monuments were tested in a broad range spanning from the site-specific land- form installations to the inhabitable large- scale abstract sculptures. In tune with experimental character of Yugoslav self-management socialism, new hybrid typologies emerged, combining symbolic meaning and various concrete functions. Two major typologies emerged. First ones were Museums of Revolution which operated as institutions for historicizing and displaying anti-fascist fight and socialist revolution. Second, and perhaps more original ones, were polyvalent cultural and social centres symbolically or programmatically associated with some form of ideological representation or commemoration. Architectural ambitions and spatial frameworks for both typologies inevitably varied due to extensive production of these new institutional frameworks. In especially exposed cases, architects researched building’s form and as carrier of monumentality striped off figurative meaning. Thanks to cultural autonomy of Yugoslav architects, these ideologically charged buildings became prime sites of advanced architectural experiments. Paper will focus on several case-studies which were meant to act as “living monuments”, reconciled modern monumentally and architectural performance. Paper will also tackle current status of these structures.

monuments, architectural typologies, modernist architecture, architecture in region of former Yugoslavia

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