Season 3

After the Second World War, Yugoslavia and Croatia as one of its republics embarked on building a new society between the East and the West. This experiment was marked by numerous contradictions that also manifested in architecture – an important part of this grand social project. On an unusual, four episode journey from Zagreb to Belgrade via Zenica and Sarajevo to the small Belgian town of Wevelgem through four episodes, we will explore the architecture that represented the fundamental values of that society at the time: federalism, non-alignment, modernization, and anti-fascism. We will visit houses, monuments, and cities that embodied these ideas. We will examine the fate of architecture of the highest symbolic significance that, through radical historical changes, lost its original meaning but not its cultural and spatial importance.

Nakon Drugog svjetskog rata Jugoslavija i Hrvatska kao jedna od njezinih republika grade novo društvo između Istoka i Zapada. Eksperiment je to obilježen mnogim proturječnostima koje se odražavaju i u arhitekturi – važnom dijelu tog velikog društvenog projekta. Na neobičnom putu od Zagreba do Beograda preko Zenice i Sarajeva do malog belgijskog grada Wevelgema kroz četiri epizode istražit ćemo arhitekturu koja je predstavljala temeljne vrijednosti tadašnjeg društva: federativnost, nesvrstanost, modernizaciju i antifašizam. Posjetit ćemo kuće, spomenike i gradove koji su te ideje utjelovili. Ispitat ćemo sudbinu arhitekture najvišeg simboličkog značenja koja je radikalnim povijesnim rezom izgubila prvotni smisao, ali ne kulturnu i prostornu važnost.