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ZG Pavilion
Njiric+ Arhitekti, Vedran Skopac | |
| location | Zagreb |
| function | pavilion |
| contributed by | Silvio_Carta |
Hrvoje Njiric and Vedran Skopac's pavilion proposal for this year's Salon clearly seeks to critique contemporary material culture in Croatia. Being critical in a country without a clear target for criticism (who is really responsible?) and with little room for critical distance (the population of a medium-sized city) is no easy task. To make matters worse, architecture is a difficult medium for social critique, requiring large investment as well as broad consensus even when the project simply seeks to solve a problem instead of articulating an argument. In the contemporary architectural discourse, skepticism as to the possibility of a critical architecture has grown into a theoretical position known as the Post Critical, at least a partial acceptance of the forces of capital and popular culture (text by Ivan Rupnik - July 2009).
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