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Architect Marko Vidaković, Zagreb Exhibition of Contemporary Czechoslovakian Architecture (1928) and the Beginnings of Modernism in Croatian Architecture

Czech modern architecture exerted a considerable influence on Croatia owing to the work of Czech architects in Croatia (e.g. on the construction of Bata's factory in Borovo), and more importantly due to numerous Croatian and Yugoslav architects who were educated at the Technical University in Prague. Marko Vidaković (Golubinci, 18 July 1890 – Zagreb, 5 January 1976) was one of the most significant. After attending the Vienna University of Technology for a year (1909-10), Vidaković studied intermittently at the Česká vysoká škola technická in Prague from 1910 to 1919. He played a key role in the emergence of modern architecture in Croatia through his efforts to organize the exhibition Czechoslovakian Contemporary Architecture in Zagreb (17 March – 1 April 1928) with the help of Zdenĕk Wirth from the Czechoslovakian Ministry of Schools and Public Education. Soon after the exhibition, Vidaković designed and built one of the first buildings of the international style in Zagreb, the villa owned by Ljudevit Pfeffermann at 27a Jurjevska Street (1928-29). This and his later architectural designs (such as the unexecuted design for the 1931 pavilion at the Zagreb Fair) show influences of works by Czech architects. Although Pfefferman Villa was his last built project, the unexecuted designs he created for various buildings in Zagreb (tram stop shelters, 1930 ; art pavilion, 1930), clearly attest to a great talent of this architect who adopted the vocabulary of modern architecture. He also played a major role in helping the international style spread in Croatia and Yugoslavia with his numerous texts published in the Ljubljana-based Architecture magazine as well as daily newspapers issued in Zagreb and Belgrade. During the Second World War he actively participated in the campaigns of saving Serbian children in the pro-fascist Independent State of Croatia.

Marko Vidaković; Zagreb; Architecture; Modernism; Exhibition of the Czechoslovakian Contemporary Architecture; Ljudevit Pfeffermann

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