“The Month of Museum 2017”, which is held in the Historical Museum of BiH, represents a manifestation of this museum that promotes cultural and historical heritage and museum practices for the second year in a row. The exhibition “The Sunny Side of Modernism – The Tourist Architecture of Boris Magas, Ante Rozic, and Branko Znidarec” was opened last night.
This exhibition talks about the development of tourist architecture in Yugoslavia during the 1960’s: about the context, tendencies, and aesthetics of different objects. Architects Boris Magas, Ante Rozic, and Branko Znidarec are members of the generation of Croatian architects who built modernist facilities during the period of Yugoslavia. In the 1960’s, Boris Magas brought a breath of modernism in Sarajevo through the realization of the building of the Museum of Revolution of BiH, which is today’s Historical Museum of BiH.
“Typologically innovative, formally elegant and tectonically disciplined project of the Museum of Revolution in Sarajevo, now the Historical Museum of BiH, Boris Magas, Edo Smidihen and Branko Horvat, is one of the starting points of research of Croatian architects in the 1960’s and it should be observed as an integral part of the exhibition itself. Just like numerous other tourist constructions and the modernist legacy of our close history, the Historical Museum is just waiting for its reconstruction. However, the understanding of the progressive role of architecture in the process of building the ‘sunny’ side of society is equally important as the physical restitution itself,” stated curators of the exhibition Maroje Mrduljas and Mira Stanic from the Institute of Research at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb.
The exhibition was also attended by architect Ante Rozic. Besides the exhibition, the film “Concrete Sleepers” was presented in the museum as well. Moreover, an interview with the author of the exhibition, architect Maroje Mrduljas, was conducted as well. The conversation was moderated by Mensur Demir, an architect from Sarajevo.
(Source: klix.ba)
