Architecture, Power and Phenomenology: A Problematic Synthesis

This paper aims to discuss this heterogeneous adventure and to analyse the aspects of Yugoslav architectural practice through the example of one specific typology: monuments built to commemorate the World War II battles and genocides that occurred during the Nazi-Fascist occupation of former Yugoslavia. The themes of “power in architecture” and “phenomenology in architecture” will therefore be discussed through this specific case study. Luka Skansi is an architectural historian and assistant professor at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He holds a master of science in architecture from IUAV (Venice) and a doctoral degree from the School for Advanced Studies in Venice. His research interests include Italian architecture and engineering of the 20th century, Russian and Soviet architecture, the architecture in ex-Yugoslavia. Recently, he co-curated the exhibition Streets and Neighbourhoods on Slovenian architect Vladimir Braco Mušič (MAO Ljubljana, 2016) and participated in the 2014 Venice Biennale (section “MondoItalia”). He is a member of the curatorial board of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia , 1948–1980 (MoMA, New York, 2018).