Naslov
The Croatian sport architecture of the interwar period

Autori
Lazanja, Ivana ; Radović Mahečić, Darja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Body, Sport and Modern Architecture

Urednik/ci
Tournikiotis, Panayotis

Izdavač
Futura

Grad
Atena

Godina
2006

Raspon stranica
131-159

ISBN
960-6654-27-3

Ključne riječi
sport architecture, Hrvatski sokol, mountain lodges, rowing clubs

Sažetak
In 1874 "Hrvatski Sokol", the first Croatian sport association was founded. Apart from the sport promotion and practice, it main goal was gathering of Croats, Serbs, Slovenians and some other Slavs in their fight against the Hungarisation. In the course of the XIXth century and at the beginning of the XXth many sport facilities were built, but it was only during the period between the two Wars that architectural appearance of these sport constructions started showing modernist visual identity. During that period, Croatia was a part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and its most developed part, which influenced life standard of its citizens and enriched their everyday life with some new leisure activities, among others – sport. Sport and sport promotion were strongly present everywhere. Apart from some specialised sport journals, daily newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines were filled with sport pages. They announced the upcoming sport events in the country, brought news on recent sport competitions at home and abroad, described everyday sport activities of common people and celebrities worldwide, or simply promoted some specific clothing sport brands. All kind of sport was promoted and practised: athletics, gymnastics, skiing, ski-jumping, sledging, ice skating, ice and field hockey, horse and bicycle racing, water sports, rowing, tennis, mountaineering, golf, rifle-shooting, football, etc. The national and international sport competitions initiated construction of some important sport complexes that were afterwards used for the youth sport education as a part of obligatory primary, secondary and academic education. The authorities realised the importance of sport practice and education, so at the beginning of the 1930-ies the Ministry of Physical Education was founded and discussion on education of physical education professors was initiated doubting in-between two systems: to organise particular schools for professors of physical education or to include the education of these professors as a part of University studies. Sport facilities were part of the construction program of all Croatian Modernist educational buildings, some including their variety, as for example the 1931 elementary school on the Selska street designed by architect Ivan Zemljak, which apart from the gymnasium and outdoor sport grounds had as a part of its courtyard three pools, one filled with water, two others being sandboxes. At the end of the 30-ies, recreation facilities became a part of housing estates. The first park and children playground within a working-class quarter were opened in 1940 as the prototype of open space for the masses in the “ First Croatian Savings Bank” Housing Estate designed by architect Zdenko Strižić in 1935. The central part of the children playground was occupied with a swimming pool, which was surrounded by the wooden-concrete benches, swings and vegetation. Two artistic pieces were incorporated, one being the white marble water well and the other one sculpture of a boy playing flute.

Izvorni jezik
Eng-gre

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Povijest umjetnosti, Znanost o umjetnosti

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