Naslov
Sinturbanism: socialist legacy of utopian spatial thinking

Autori
Kolešnik, Ljiljana ; Haničar Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Utopia / Ayers, David ; Härmänmaa, Marija - Helsinki : EAM and University of Helsinki, 2014, 144-144

ISBN
0-000-000000-0

Skup
Utopia - the Fourth bi-annual conference of the European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies

Mjesto i datum
Helsinki, Finska, 28.08.2014. - 31.08.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
utopian architecture; socialism; spatial thinking; urban planing

Sažetak
Croatian architect Vjenceslav Richter published his treatise on Sinturbanism in 1964, at the moment when the influence of high modernism on architecture and urbanism in Yugoslavia was reaching its peak. It was also the moment when harmonious post-war urban transformation and planed urban growth suffered a serious blow by series of political and economic reforms resulting – at the end of 1960s – with a significant structural changes of Yugoslav society that also revealed incapacity of modernist urban planning to fully embrace egalitarian dimension of self-managing socialism. Richter responded to this “flaw in the system” with the utopian vision of the city as a complex structure of self-contained living units fulfilling all existential and social needs of their inhabitants and serving as “spatial modulators” of social interactions. Setting rational and clearly legible spatial relations – a defining principle of Sinturbanism – in direct connection to rational organisation of Yugoslav socialist society, Richter clearly pointed the social ambitions of his proposal, but the rigidity of that correlation almost turned sinturbanism’s utopian dimension to its opposite. Preserved by elaborated relation between built and natural environment and imaginative application of technology it is important legacy of utopian spatial thinking from the period of socialism that deserves our attention.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest umjetnosti

Napomena
Rad je odabran za objavljivanje u zborniku skupa, koji će biti tiskan krajem 2015. godine.

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