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Diocletian’s palace in the post-war architectural discourse of the team 10

The goal of this research was to determine the position of Diocletian’s palace in Split within the post-war architectural discourse, primarily by examining the work of Dutch architect Jacob Bakema, a member of the international architectural group Team 10. Four decades after Le Corbusier’s visionary project “Contemporary City for Three Million Inhabitants”(1922), Jacob Bakema published the study “An Emperor’s House in Split Became a Town for Three Thousand People”(1962) in the Dutch architectural journal Forum. Bakema’s article shed light on two principles important for spatial organization of the Palace: structure (roman layer) which is observed as a fixed framework for numerous architectural infills (all other historical layers) rendered throughout the long history of urban life at the site. According to Bakema, the principles of structure and infill were crucial for the architectural theory and practice in the post-war period of the 20th century. The Palace was important, but it was not the only model for post-war architectural structures. Aside from the Palace, other Team 10 members referred to kasbah, a traditional Islamic urban typology in countries on the southern Mediterranean coast, such as Morocco or Algeria. Diocletian’s palace and the architecture of kasbah are both characterized by flexibility, growth and movement, which are the three main architectural characteristics that played a role in the design of the two influential post-war projects: Free University in Berlin (Candilis, Josic, Woods ; built, 1963) and Venice hospital (Le Corbusier ; unbuilt, 1964).

Diocletian's Palace, Jacob Bakema, Team 10, Le Corbusier, structuralism

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