Titles
A-C
City Body / Body geometry as guiding principle. A practitio...A City and a Scene: Observing the Limitations of San Francis...A Constellation of “Central Parks” in the Multicenter Ba...A Deeper Look into Boyle Heights, Los Angeles: An Ethnograph...A novel form of redlining? Investigating the impacts of gree...A Taste of Home – The Cultural Significance and Design of ...Ajodhya – An Exemplary Model for Heritage City DevelopmentArchitectural Master-Planning on Complex Terrains: Leveragin...Are Indian Cities Deteriorating Socio-Culturally due to the ...Artefacts of Disaster Memory: Understanding Disaster Memoria...Arts with(out) a distance: The impacts of new media, artifi...Backtracking Monterrey from 1924 to 2124: Solving Future Cha...Balancing Transformation: Design insights for navigating riv...Beyond Human Realms: Exploring the Comprehensive Ecological ...Breaking with the Past to Deliver a Decarbonized Future: The...Bridging Past Wisdom with Future Needs: A Comprehensive Stud...British Colonial Railways in Cyprus and Their Impacts on Arc...Building Heritages from the Air: Commercial Aviation and the...Capitalizing upon Black Statue Symbology in Washington, DCCarbon Sequestration of Landscape in Tropical Urban Areas: A...Cities Facing the Future: Towards the City we Want. Barcelon...Commerce, Cruise and Community: Kingston Harbour and Urban C...Community Engagement and Groundwater Flood Risk Management. ...Considerations of Frontality and Formality in FacadesCrafting Change: A Comprehensive Examination of the Channapa...Cultural Heritage and Transitional Justice: The Compromises ...(Re)Record
T-Z
Territorial Museums Exhibitions - The Encounter Between Digi...The Appropriation of Verticality - Zagreb’s Historicistic ...The Building as Witness: visual narratives from Post-War Bei...The End of the City and the Last Man: Shane Jesse Christmass...The Everyday PastoralThe Inca Ceque System and its Possible Contributions Nowaday...The Legacy of Modernism in Cyprus: Architect Abdullah OnarThe Magi myth: More Overpowering than Digital Magic? A Colla...The Regeneration of Minor Centres: from Planning Scenarios t...The Role of Details in Urban Conservation: Three Critical Ru...The Role of Frank Street in the Public Life of Izmir in 19th...The unique architectural features of the mosques in Kutticha...The Virtual Reconstruction Of The Village Of Portomarín (Lu...To the Rescue: Addressing Modern Heritage in SharjahTo what extent the digitalisation of artefacts in Ithra muse...Towards Inclusive City streets: Combining Streetscape Segmen...Transforming Heritage Discourse on the Landscape at Gettysbu...Translating Ethnographic Data into Spatial Representations o...Transmedia Communication and Responsible Tourism. New Narrat...Two Centuries and Two Poles of Rural Architectural Manifests...UNESCO and the Holocaust: Complicated World HeritageUnpacking Tension between Historical Preservation and Pedest...Unravelling the Architectural Topology of Portmeirion: Explo...Urban AI: Platforms, Tools and the Sustainable Development o...Urban futures cultural past. Edinburgh a Lost World.Urban Futures- Cultural Pasts: an Urban Analytics Approach t...Urban Graphic Heritage — Case Studies Framing the Creation...Urban layers of violence: military pasts, regenerative futur...Waking the Puma: Urban Planning and Historical Disorder in C...War Memorials as Heritage in Bangladesh: A Living Cultural E...Welcome & IntroductionWhispers of Time: Rediscovering and Preserving Hyderabad's C...
Presenters
Schedule

IN-PERSON Barcelona. Section B

Urban Futures-Cultural Pasts
The Appropriation of Verticality - Zagreb’s Historicistic Villas and the Spatial Frame of a New Society
K. Seitz & N. Jakšić
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Abstract

The second half of the 19th century in many ways defined the subsequent development of Zagreb, Croatian ethnical and cultural centre within the Habsburg Monarchy. Abolition of serfdom and industrialisation of production slowly uplifted the middle class which relied on architecture to envision and design spaces of a new society. No other building type better embodied this aspiration then the late nineteenth century historicistic villas, whose domestic architecture did not only incorporate certain function, but also strived to materialize cultural identity, concept of morality and the idea of modernity in a moment of profound economic, social, and cultural change. Consequently, architects experimented with various architectural styles and elements which redefined the relationship between the villa and its closer or wider environment. One element stood out in particular – the tower, which was often dismissed as a mere romantical pursuit. However, when investigated within the spatial context of a late 19th century city, towers of Zagreb’s historicistic villas prove to be bold statements when verticality was reserved exclusively for the clergy (church towers) or the aristocracy / monarchy (rampart towers). This paper reexamines the architecture of Zagreb’s historicistic villas by focusing on its singular element – the tower, to fully understand the moment in city’s architectural history in which a new social class used new building type to challenge the existing visual expressions of power. In doing so, it created unique cultural landscape which is still not yet understood in all its complexity and unfortunately still not protected accordingly.

Biography

Karlo Seitz is a doctoral student at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Architecture where he also works as a research assistant at the Department of Theory and History of Architecture. His current research focuses on late 19th and early 20th century architecture in Zagreb and its complex role in the profound social and cultural transformation of the Croatian capital. He is particularly interested in architectural atmospheres, understood as specific emotional qualities of built environments, with which architecture can materialise otherwise immaterial sentiments such as cultural identity, co

Nataša Jakšić, Dipl.Ing.Arch., M.Sc., Ph.D. is an architect and architectural historian, Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture. Her work focuses on the history of architecture. She has broadly written on the history of Croatian architecture in the European cultural context.