[oberlist] MOTEL TROGIR: IT IS NOT FUTURE THAT ALWAYS COMES AFTER_ the book is out

[natasa bodrozic]

Loose Associations (Slobodne veze) Zagreb & ONOMATOPEE Eindhoven are happy
to inform you that the book entitled 'MOTEL TROGIR: It is not future that
always comes after' is published. The book is result of the ongoing
campaign for preservation and (re)evaluation of the mid 20th century
architectural modernism from the period of Socialist Yugoslavia.

[image: Ugrađena slika 2]


*About the book:*

Motel Trogir is a fine example of the Yugoslav mid-20th century
architectural modernism. Built in 1965 on the eastern Adriatic coast by a
renowned architect Ivan Vitić, the building is a surviving artefact of
the planning
culture with *a social ideal* as its generative core.

Today in a derelict state due to unresolved property issues, as a result of
the non-transparent privatization of what once was societal ownership, the
motel stands as a reminder of the former political economy with its
different foundations and aspirations. Conceived during a period of
markedly increased transit tourism in the small Dalmatian town of Trogir,
the construction of the Motel had been planned in parallel with that of the
Adriatic Highway. It was envisaged as one of the performative elements
which would fit within the utopian vision of the Highway imagined as a
feature film unfolding on the travelers’ windscreens. Although visionary,
the building and the belonging “emptiness” around it, seem like an abnormal
error in the urban imagination of present-day administrators, real estate
developers and entrepreneurs.

This book tells the story of the 1960s in the Socialist Yugoslavia, the
country in between the East and the West, between the socialist agenda and
the market economy. Focusing on tourist architecture and planning, it
pursues the turbulent decades that followed, reflected in Ivan Vitić’s
Adriatic motels.

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*Edited by* Nataša Bodrožić & Saša Šimpraga


*Contributors:* Tvrtko Jakovina, Dafne Berc, Melita Čavlovic, Lidija
Butković Mićin, Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Sandra Uskoković, Zrinka Paladino,
Saša Šimpraga, Nataša Bodrožić, Maroje Mrduljaš, Ruben Arevshatyan, Levan
Asabashvili, Silva Kalčić, Idis Turato, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair

*Graphic design:* Rafaela Dražić

*Languages:* Croatian & English

*Translation:* Ena Prokić

*Proofreading:* Lidija Butković Mićin, Sarah Thomas

224 pages _ b/w + color block

*Published by* Slobodne veze/ Loose Associations, Zagreb & ONOMATOPEE,
Eindhoven


*How to get the book:*

Europe/World... http://www.onomatopee.net/

Ex Yugoslavia... order your book by e-mail: slobodne.veze at gmail.com





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