Book presentation: “Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – arhitektura, arhitekti”
Public presenation
The Institute of Art History and the Zagreb Society of Architects invite you to the presentation of the book Aleksander Laslo: Zagreb – Architecture, Architects, published by the Institute of Art History in 2025 and edited by Tamara Bjažić Klarin, PhD.
The presentation will take place on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, at 6 p.m., at the address Trg bana Josipa Jelačića 3/1, in Zagreb Society of Architects (DAZ).
Welcome Address
Academician Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Director of the Institute of Art History
Speakers
Tamara Bjažić Klarin, PhD, Institute of Art History, Editor
Irena Kraševac, PhD, Institute of Art History, Principal Investigator of the Croatian Science Foundation project Architecture and the Culture of Dwelling in Zagreb, 1880–1940 / ARHZAG
Dražen Juračić, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb
Ákos Moravánszky, PhD, Professor Emeritus, ETH Zürich
The book brings together a selection of seminal texts by architect, designer, architectural historian, and conservationist Aleksander Laslo, devoted to Zagreb’s architecture and urban planning from the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Gathered for the first time, they represent a kind of synthesis of his lifelong research into modernization processes, the introduction of new planning, spatial, constructive and design concepts into theoretical discourse and architectural production, both in Zagreb and Croatia. Since Laslo’s texts address the core of Zagreb’s architectural heritage, which is irrevarsibly disappearing, the book aims to contribute to its better knowledge and understanding and to reach a brought readership, involving students, researchers and experts, especially those involved in the reconstruction of central Zagreb after the 2020 earthquake. The most affected being urban units and architecture that have significantly determined the European identity of Zagreb, and their irreversible change means the loss of tangible evidence of the city’s development and its inclusion in contemporary European architectural and urban trends.
The book will be available for purchase at a promotional price at the launch.
We look forward to your arrival!