Naslov
Boris Magaš and the Emergence of Postmodernist Themes in the Croatian Modernist Tradition

Autori
Šerman, Karin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Re-Framing Identities: Architecture's Turn to History, 1970-1990 (East West Central: Rebuilding Europe 1950-1990, Vol. 3)

Urednik/ci
Moravánszky, Ákos ; Lange, Torsten

Izdavač
Birkhäuser

Grad
Basel

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
191-206

ISBN
978-3-0356-1017-8

Ključne riječi
Architecture ; architecture theory ; modernism ; postmodernism ; Boris Magaš ; Croatia

Sažetak
The chapter is a survey of the flexibility of conceptual systems. It explores the capacity of a set of values and ideas to endure global paradigm shifts – to uphold consistent cultural production regardless of radical reversals of ideological, political, social, and intellectual frames. It focuses primarily on the resilience of architectural modernism, while also registering a certain precociousness of postmodernism, which is to say the early appearance of postmodernist themes even within the modernist discourse. The chapter also addresses the issue of identity, in particular the fact of its constant and recurrent re-framing. The category of identity is thereby taken to connote both cultural and national identity, as well as the identity of the discipline of architecture proper. In addressing these topics, the chapter relies on a particularly illustrative case: that of the eminent Croatian architect Boris Magaš (1930-2013), as an admirable representative of local architectural modernism. Magaš is chosen for several reasons. First, for the high quality of his architectural work: he was an exceptional architect and practitioner, with works that strongly marked the Croatian architectural scene of the period from the 1960s to the 1990s. Second, Magaš was among the first who operated with postmodernist ideas and introduced postmodern topics in Croatian architectural practice and discourse. And third, he was a theorist himself, a longtime professor of architectural theory at the Zagreb Faculty of Architecture, and as such was required to thoroughly rationalize and explain his own design decisions, in the context of theorizing the ongoing conceptual transition and intense re- formulations of the inherited architectural apparatus.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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