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Lexicon of Croatian Architects of the 20th Century is an open book: a project that is added to gradually, growing, updated, republished, translated into foreign languages and expanding its media presentation. Lexicon is a kind of summary of the methodological tradition of Atlas architecture that has been a phenomenon of Croatian architecture in its elementary stages, and an assessment of records through the prism of authors as an architectural process. In this sense, this book is intended not only as a resumé of elapsed time but also as a reference in the initial construction of the Croatian cultural space.

The published edition presents 61 recognized architects, distributed alphabetically. These architects have been extracted from the generation of those who were active in the 20th century, with births no later than 1930. In this way, the relevant range of architectural production since the beginning of the century until the 1960s is covered. The selection key adapted curiculums of recognized authors primarily as a memento for Architecture School students, as future editions will complement the period analyzed, and gradually move to limit both the generations of architects who were active in the 19th century, and those closer to the present time. Contributions of each author each are summarized within four pages. The Lexicon includes a total of 490 graphic contributions, which comprises the work of each architect presented by eight contributions as a supplement of his life and most important works.

Please note: This book is only available in Croatian.