Stanković House in Zagreb Study of its Architectural Evolution

Uglovna trokatnica, poznata kao kuća ili palača Stanković (Trg bana J. Jelačića 1 / Ilica 2), po svome urbanistički eksponiranom položaju i povijesnoj slojevitosti pripada konzervatorski najzanimljivijim i najstarijim spomeničkim građevinama u zagrebačkom Donjem gradu. Utvrđene su četiri glavne razvojne faze kuće: prvotna prizemnica Krajačić-Erdödy (poč. 18. st.), jednokatnica Jelačić (kraj 18. st., dokumentirana po Felbingeru), dvokatnica Stanković (poslije 1833., vjerojatno Cragnolini) i trokatnica Stanković (Bolléova adaptacija poslije 1882.).The three-storey corner building also known as Stanković House (Palace) situated on Ban Jelačić square 1 / Ilica 2 belongs to the oldest and most interesting buildings of Central Zagreb in terms of its prominent urban position and multiple historical layers. The house has gone through four main development phases: the original single-storey Krajačić-Erdödy House (early 18th c.), two-storey Jelačić House (late 18th c., documented by Felbinger), three-storey Stanković House (after 1833, probably Cragnolini) and four-storey Stanković House (Bollé’s redesign after 1882)

Architectural Competitions in Split 2006-2010; Darovan Tušek

This is the fourth volume in Darovan Tušek’s series of books dedicated to the architectural and urban-planning competitions in Split, which focuses on the competitions held between 2006 and 2010. This short five-year period saw a burst of activity in the field with 45 competitions presented in this most comprehensive volume of the series. The introductory part depicts the role of the Split-based Architects’ Association in competition procedures as well as the corresponding rules and regulations. The central part of the book contains a chro nological review of all competitions including the texts of the invitations for submissions and of the jury’s decisions about the awards. The illustrated section of the book presents the awarded, purchased, and other competition entries. The author provides commentary about the post-competition situations, i.e. the issue of project realizations. In conclusion she brings forward the characteristics of the period and the architectural trends in Split that were set by those competitions

The Lexicon of Split’s Modern Architecture; Darovan Tušek

This book is a valuable guide to Split’s modern architecture in the last hundred years (1918-2018) supplied with numerous systematized and verified data. The first chapter provides an elaborate account and a chronological survey of the city’s urban development and construction activities during that period with encyclopedic information on all relevant authors, dating of the seminal works of architecture and their critical evaluation. The second chapter contains biographies of a hundred most significant Split architects as well as a selection of key words relevant for the profession (competitions, urban plans, architectural journals, architectural practices, etc.). The third and the largest chapter contains a catalogue with 435 analyzed buildings arranged in chronological order and numeration associated with the city map attached. Data in all catalogue units are identical (name of the project, dating, address, author, evaluation, literature) and each building is visualized with one photograph

Traces of Bizantine town planning in Croatia

U članku se analiziraju okolnosti koje su u procesu bizantske reurbanizacije istočnog Jadrana tijekom 6. i 7. st. utjecale na smanjenje veličine postojećih gradova, na njihovu ruralizaciju (agrourbana naselja) te na pomak urbanih središta prema utvrđenim otočnim točkama. Prema kriteriju kontinuiteta izdvojeni su gradovi s trajanjem antičke osnove, dislocirani ili napušteni gradovi te novonastala naselja oko bizantskih utvrda i samostanskih punktova.The article analyzes Byzantine re-urbanization of the East Adriatic in the 6th and 7th centuries and the circumstances that led to the diminishing of existing towns, their ruralization (agrourban settlements), and urban relocation to fortified island points. From the aspect of continuity, the author singles out towns with a lasting classical foundation, dislocated or deserted towns, and new settlements that developed around Byzantine fortifications and monasteries

The Lexicon of Split’s Modern Architecture; Darovan Tušek

This book is a valuable guide to Split’s modern architecture in the last hundred years (1918-2018) supplied with numerous systematized and verified data. The first chapter provides an elaborate account and a chronological survey of the city’s urban development and construction activities during that period with encyclopedic information on all relevant authors, dating of the seminal works of architecture and their critical evaluation. The second chapter contains biographies of a hundred most significant Split architects as well as a selection of key words relevant for the profession (competitions, urban plans, architectural journals, architectural practices, etc.). The third and the largest chapter contains a catalogue with 435 analyzed buildings arranged in chronological order and numeration associated with the city map attached. Data in all catalogue units are identical (name of the project, dating, address, author, evaluation, literature) and each building is visualized with one photograph

Notes on Osijek lower town sinagogue

Among more than 80 sinagogues that existed in Croatia in the course of the history only nine emerged in the final level of construction in the first decades of the 20th century. A special position among these is occupied by Osijek Lower Town sinagogue, one of the rare Jewish house of prayer that was preserved in its almost original form, although with different function. In ancient Mursa there was already a Jewish proseuche (in the 2nd and 3rd centuries). The first settled Jews in Osijek were registered in 1746 in the area of the Lower Town. Modern Jewish municipality (besides the one in Zagreb – the most numerous one) in Osijek in its Upper Town was founded in 1849; the first house of prayer was established in a house in 399 Školska street, later 393 Nemecka street (nowadays Pejačevićeva street); the big Upper Town sinagogue with two towers was built in 1869 in Županijska street (devastated and burnt in 1941, pulled down again in 1950). A bit younger Jewish municipality in the Lower Town was established in 1862; the site of its first sinagogue is not known. The construction plans for the new Lower Town Templ done by W.C. Hofbauer dated back to April 1901, and for a bit modified main plan in 1902 building permit was issued on 16 July 1902. Solemn opening of the sinagogue after less than five months of construction took place on 28 December 1902, although final works continued in 1903 as well. The high-rise sinagogue was situated at street-line without retracting into the depth of the building lot (modern plan that ignored prescriptive royal regulations on houses of prayer of «non-coreligionists»); the entrance; around the sinagogue originally there was a garden with a wrought iron fence. The main facade composition was symmetrical; central risalit is pointed out and raised, flanked with a pair of towers with «Moorish» imperial roof in which there are side entrances and a spiral stairway leading to women gallery (esrat naschim). The facade painting was performed in a two-coloured dissection: light coloured plastic, dark fondo (significant renovation of the facade took place in 1930, then in 1980 and in the late 1990ies). Neo-Romanesque details (lesenes, arches, decorative supporting piers, bifore, portal) were used in facade shaping. There are still Judaic symbols in it such as a luhot with Ten Commandments at the top of the gable, the rosette on the side facades carry the motif of magen David (Star of David) that was also applied on the tops of the spires. In the interior aron ha-kodesh for storing Tora, placed in a deep barrel-shaped arched eastern apse (a polygonal lay-out niche), there is a raised wrought iron fenced reader’s platform bima for the rabi. Artificial wooden vault hangs over the nave, a gallery of the choir is over the entrance where in 1928 there was an organ. The walls and vault are decorated using patterns of folk motifs of coloured floral matrix (Hungarian influence); picturesquely formed pillars of female gallery are made of cast iron. According to the time of construction this is one of the last late-historicist sinagogues of modest quality and conventional concept but interesting among the same sinagogues of this type (Westwerk sinagogue with a pair of western towers and gallery motif) and for the fact that it is one of the rare sinagogues that survived pulling down and severe devastation. Preserving the original forms the interior of the sinagogue was in art-conservation terms correctly redone in 1980 after it had been sold to the Pentecostal church in 1976. It is today a part of the Evangelical Theological Faculty in 32 Cvjetkova street in the Lower Town. The memorial tablet has been put up

Misli o hrvatskoj arhitekturi u formi intervjua

Recenzija, prikaz knjiga "Arhitektonski dijalozi I-III", urednika Alena Žunića i Borisa Dundovića