This theoretical graduate course is concieved as an upgrade to the regular undergraduate course under the title „Twentieth century Croatian architecture“. It examines, analyzes and interprets remarkable architect's ouevres, anthological works and creative processes of prominent Croatian architects starting from the 19th century up to the present. Series of lectures are structured accordum to the architect's
education, area of activity and generation's affiliation. Methological units: 1. Defining the nineteenth century profession of architecture/ 2. Croatian architecture's benchmarks – Bartol Felbinger – Viktor Kovačić – Drago Ibler/ 3. Graduate architects from the perid 1918-1945: a) Technical Faculty in Zagreb, b) „Ibler's School“ at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, c) European Universities/ 4. Architects and graduates of Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb after the year 1945./ 5. Architects graduated in the Republic of Croatia after the year 1991. Depending on the attending student population affinity, the selection for the curriculum is derived from the course's material, which consists of 75 architect's ouevres. Lectures (1-4) are obligatory for each academic semestar, and lectures (5-11) are held in cyclic quadrennial terms, during which the total extend of the material will have been presented. By the end of the semestar, lectures are updated with the current architectural themes (12-15). The course is open to all studies and classes of students from the University of Zagreb.
Creating critical stance towards the modernistic architectural heritage. Lectures interpret each architect's professional modus operandi, on the basis of conceptual, social, artistic, contextual and cultural aspect of his approach, and elaborates upon that specific author's contribution. Anthological works are analyzed form the perspective of their conceptual, functional, formal and structural properties in order to understand the issues of architectural synthesis. Mastering this course aquires the body of knowledge about architecture which can be used as a reference memory of architect's individual activity. Students will gain in-depth knowledge of values of Croatian architecture that constitute the „Zagreb School of Architecture“ and special formal features of regional centres, as the specific phenomenon of European architectural and cultural space. The problems of continuity of Croatian architecture within the global trends is discussed. The course is directly assiciated with the scientific project „Atlas of the twentieth century Croatian architecture“ of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zargeb.