Naslov
Workers' University in Zagreb

Autori
Margaretić Urlić, Renata ; Šerman, Karin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Team 10 East: Revisionist Architecture in Real- Existing Modernism

Urednik/ci
Stanek, Lukasz

Izdavač
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Grad
Varšava

Godina
2014

Raspon stranica
157-163

ISBN
978-83-64177-03-0

Ključne riječi
Radovan Nikšić, Workers’ University, Zagreb, Jacob Bakema, Team 10, post-WW2 architectural modernism

Sažetak
In 1956-1961 Radovan Nikšić realized his Workers’ University in Zagreb (together with Ninoslav Kučan) – the masterpiece of Croatian post-war modernism, a paradigmatic example of ‘total plastic reality’ in the service of ‘Socialist enlightenment’. The building is an impressively pure and abstract spatial construct, wrapped in transparency, with space flowing freely trough it to connect the whole structure in a single spatial unity. In this article it is assessed through its evident proximity with Team 10 concepts and theories – the idea of flexibility (flexible ground plan in which units could change and enable redesigns according to the program) ; the issue of function and identity (political training of workers of the ‘Socialist self-management’) ; and the idea of city–building (cultural ambition of developing a new city district and overall community). Indicatively, Jacob Bakema invitated Nikšić to present this extraordinary work at the last CIAM meeting in Otterlo in 1959, threby manifesting the recognition of correspondence of this architectural concept with Team 10 ideas and Bakema’s own theories.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam

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