Scientific papers:
• V. Mikic (2004): Klasicnost Ulrichova moderniteta, Prostor, 12 (1/27), Zagreb.
• V. Mikic (2004): Klasicizirajuci element u modernom, Prostor, 11(2/26); pp. 137-144, Zagreb.
• V. Mikic (2004): The meaning of architectural details in the works of Viktor Kovacic, Peristil, the paper was received on 16 Jan 2004. From the review by Tomislav Premerl Ph.D.: The paper by Vesna Mikić Ph.D. creatively brings up a comprehensive subject of the crucial role, meaning and life of details in architecture, and implies author’s further theoretical analysis. With a good sense of proportion the author found her own way of interpretation, probably with an aim to instigate interest for this topic, not often discussed by our architects and elaborated in an uncommon manner, and this is precisely why the paper is a valuable contribution to our quite scarce theory of architecture. Highly perceptive of details in the works of Kovačić, comparing them masterly with the Viennese secessional Wagnerian examples, the author hints at a possibility of an approach to the study of details as part of architectural structures in general. She sees details as crucial, often hidden bearers of the basic spatial concept, indicating that an architectural element is not the subject of her interest in the formal sense, but that it is rather its “spiritual charge that sets it free and becomes a creation of its own” in the personal and unique author’s script woven into the context of a certain cultural environment, which gives life to details, but which also contributes to the crucial spiritual marks as a creator of essential architectural relations and aesthetic demonstration.
Also, in her paper the author calls for a specific study on Kovačić’s work within the complex context of the European scene at the turn of the century, which we are still far from completing.
The paper handed in by Vesna Mikić Ph.D. is written in a transparent and concise manner, corroborated by appropriate documentation (notes, references, abstract), and well illustrated, therefore I highly recommend it for publication in the “Peristil” magazine as a valuable contribution to our theory of architecture.
• “Distinctive quality of architectural details in the work of Viktor Kovačić”, proceedings of the symposium on Viktor Kovačić; “V. Kovačić”, his life and work”, HAZU /the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts/, 2003.
Symposiums, conferences:
• Lecture «Hyper Croatia», at the international conference «Frontiers and Opportunities» within the scope of Bienalle Venezia, 10th Mostra Internationale di Archittetura – eventi Collateralli, 2006
• Symposium «Javni Prostor /Public Space/ - a lecture on authorial work, 1996
• Presentation of architect Antun Ulrich at the Croatian exhibition, the 19th Trienalle in Milan, 1996
• Symposium on Viktor Kovačić on «Distinctive quality of architectural details in the work of Viktor Kovačić», 1994
• Lecture «Urban Villas in Zagreb between WWI and WWII», 8th Congress U.I.F.A. in Washington DC, U.S.A., 1988.
Doctoral thesis:
• "The Work of Architect Anton Ulrich - Classical Quality in Modernism", 1988, University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture
Books:
• V. Mikić: Architect Anton Urlich, Classical Quality in Modernism, Jurčić Press, Zagreb, 2002.
An insight is offered into a very complex architectural period – the two centuries that saw parallel impacts of Classicism and Romanticism, and their reinterpretation in the 20th ct. The author does not stop at just elaborating the difference between them in terms of style, she points at structural distinctions, and at that she minutely follows the one that proves the thesis about the classical quality in the modern architecture. From a review by Olga Marusevski Ph.D.: “In her doctoral thesis Vesna Mikić MSc. systematically follows the argument that confirms the presence of classical quality in the modern architecture. Her research is even more interesting because in that process she tries to point at the distinctive uniqueness of a particular author, Anton Ulrich, by which she, at the same time, opens another issue: introduction of the classical discourse in the evaluation of the Croatian modern architecture.”
Scientific projects:
• From 1990 to 1995 she participates as a research assistant (under personal number 114870) in the scientific project “An analysis and guidelines on architectural and spatial concepts in tourism on the territory of Croatia”, led by Prof. Miroslav Begović Ph.D. The project resumed in 1997 and this entrant worked on it again project code: 101-117) with a separate unit “Possibilities of the development of tourism in the Gorski Kotar area”.
• Scientific project «Hyper Croatia», under preparation. |