Architect Ivo
Danijel Srdarev & Cella Anita Celic
Zagreb 2016 / self-published
Danijel Srdarev & Cella Anita Celic
Zagreb 2016 / self-published
The publication is dedicated to Ivo Vitić's skyscraper and it is a didactic research through various forms of visual expression. With different forms of analysis audience is introduced on playful and unpretentious way with this classic of modern Croatian architecture.The booklet is intended for different generations but primarily for the young ones.
National Bank Residential block in Zagreb is an extraordinary contextual example of collective housing that embraces the postulates of post-war international modernism, inspired by Le Corbusier, Mies and De Stijl. Its unique quality is recognized in its urban disposition (by transforming the urban regulation of the site), its design and form with picturesque painterly characteristics, its housing typology (the organization of the building and the specific layout of its apartments), that all together underline and promote the idea of egalitarian and democratic housing of late modernist era and the living paradigm of new urban spaces and models. (text by Sandra Uskoković and Boris Bakal)
Ivo Vitić (Šibenik, 1917–Zagreb, 1986) is one of the most prominent Croatian architects in the XX century. In his relatively short life span he created over 300 projects and witnessed more then 100 realizations in Croatia, in all ex-Yugoslavian countries, and internationally, ranging from public, sport and residential architectural buildings to urban regulations and design.
