Naslov
Between Utopia and Pragmatism: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Former Yugoslavia and the Successor States

Autori
Kulić, Vladimir ; Mrduljaš, Maroje

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, stručni

Knjiga
Unfinished Modernisations: Between Utopia and Pragmatism, Architecture and Urban Planning in the Former Yugoslavia and the Successor States

Urednik/ci
Mrduljaš, Maroje ; Kulić, Vladimir

Izdavač
Udruženje hrvatskih arhitekata

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
6-14

ISBN
978-953-6646-24-1

Ključne riječi
modern architecture, architecture and urban planning in socialism, history of socialist Yugoslavia

Sažetak
It is the concept of modernisation, and not of modernism or modernity, that appears in the title of this research project and this exhibition. Why so? For the purpose of indicating the conceptual and theoretical framework, we understand modernism as a social formation, and modernity as an epoch with its pertaining values. The history of socialist Yugoslavia is still relatively poorly researched, and integrated interpretations are wanting in all fields. We believe that the processes of modernisation, with all their different motivations and effects, can be an instructive lens when researching how architecture and town planning were linked to the social context. We also believe that modernity’s global diversities and variations manifest themselves particularly precisely through the processes of modernisation. Here we consider modernity the point of departure for modernisation, and the various modernisms as its forms. We refer to modernisations in the plural for we think them multiple and fragmented processes: the history of the region is crucially marked by interruptions, attempts at establishing continuity, and the repeated revisions of the concepts of modernisation. These processes, whether intentionally or consequentially, showed a certain degree of independence or divergence from how they played out in international cetners of modernity, which was essentially affected by the ‘between’ position: between socialist East and capitalist West, the economically developed North and the underdeveloped South, progressive cultural experiments and re-traditionalisation, between innovative political conceptions and repressive mechanisms of ideological control. Under such conditions, an unprincipled blend of pragmatism and utopia may have seemed necessary both to the governmental elites that carried out the modernisations, and also to the widest strata of the citizenry who expected, if with anxiety and doubt, a better future from these modernisations. Our understanding of the Yugoslav context, then, is based on a reading of two positions ‘between’: one related to the global and the other to the inner contrasts that fundamentally marked the modern history of the region.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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