Naslov
Case New Zagreb: Evolution of Models and Strategies of Socialist Community Building 1950-70

Autori
Margaretić Urlić, Renata ; Šerman, Karin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
East West Central 01: Re-humanizing Architecture. New Forms of Community 1950-70”, ETH Zürich

Mjesto i datum
Zürich, Švicarska, 08.05.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Novi Zagreb; housing settlements; architectural modernism; re-humanization; Team 10; Jacob Bakema

Sažetak
Novi Zagreb was probably the most significant urban project of the Croatian postwar socialist period. It featured a whole new city district, a Corbusian model-city meant to house the modern socialist society and ready to answer the pressing needs for mass housing, developed from the late 1950s to 1980s. The new city consisted of distinct housing settlements, functioning as self-managing units and housing cooperatives. Their organization followed modernist spatial conceptions, based on scientific management and spatial planning. The result was the micro-rayon – a fully integrated socialist urban matrix of housing slabs and towers, social infrastructure and landscape. This paper proposes to trace the changes of models and strategies of socialist community building in the first period of the construction of New Zagreb, before the change in 1970 brought by the General Urban Plan. The research will investigate the processes of (socialist) re-humanization of applied strict functionalist models performed in the first settlements, which simultaneously served as polygons for experimentation with new building technologies, structural innovations and issues of prefabrication, but also with new building policies and overall urban and social habits. The research proposes to focus on the examples of first settlements – Novi Savski Gaj (1957- 1961), Trnsko (1959-1966), Siget (1963-1970), Zaprudje (1963-1968) and Sopot (1965-1972) – and to examine them through four conceptual levels: in terms of planned programs and contents ; underlying ideological and social ambitions ; spatial and architectural organization ; and ways of financing and building policies. Such comparison will reveal the gradual evolution of models and strategies of socialist community building, and observe their actual outcomes and consequences. These relationships are particularly interesting since those settlements were also places of manifestation of slow transition from centralized to market economy, and of encounter of socialist “lifestyle” and westernized consumer culture, as a contradiction inherent in the Yugoslav socialist experiment. The research will also record the effects of influences of contemporary international architectural discourses, primarily those of Team 10 ideas and theories, which were introduced both through Croatian architects’ contacts with some of Team 10’s protagonists and through Jacob Bakema’s direct involvement in New Zagreb in 1965.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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