Croatian architecture exhibition to open in Amsterdam

Croatian Times
An exhibition called "Continuity of the Avant –Garde - Fragments of Croatian Architecture from Modernism to 2009" will open in Amsterdam on Friday.

It will run from 19 September until 7 November at Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam (ARCAM) in that Dutch city.

The exhibition has been organised in collaboration with Croatian architecture magazine Oris.

It features projects from three periods: the thirties, the fifties and sixties and the nineties up to 2009. The focus is on villas, housing blocks, schools, churches, monuments and infrastructure projects in cities such as Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik, with work by Frane Cota, Stjepan Planic, Nikola Dobrovic, Ivan Vitic, Kazimir Ostrogovic, Hrvoje Njiric and 3LHD, among others.

Those projects give the outsider an idea of what has taken place in Croatia over the past century and raises the question of how it was that, in an unsettled period with so much war, there was so much architecture of such high quality?

The exhibition is accompanied by an English-language catalogue with a foreword by Andrija Rusan, the publisher and editor of Oris.

A symposium about Croatian architecture in cooperation with Croatian architects who work in the Netherlands will be held at the exhibition’s venue on its opening day this Friday