Big scale or small scale: A typology of architectural exhibitions held in Yugoslavia (SFRY) and their present significance

Abstract

With the notion that exhibitions, independently of their format or content, can always be considered as both discursive and visual platforms for the study of specific time periods, this research will provide an insight into a possible typology of architecture exhibitions that were organised socialist Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1991. The exhibitions in question were considered as collective activities, and they provide an insight into a wider context of social, economic, political and cultural events in Yugoslavia after World War Two as well as the status that architecture as practice held within them. Having in mind that we speak about various exhibitions with a large number of parameters according to which they were similar or different, this paper will point out the process of forming an exhibition typology in order to enable the classification for their systematic study. A specific study will be used to create the typology that will be applied in the process of researching the architectural exhibitions, their role and importance at the specific range in the specific time period.

S obzirom na to da se izložbe, nezavisno od svog formata ili sadržaja, uvek mogu smatrati i diskurzivnom i vizuelnom platformom za proučavanje određenih vremenskih perioda, ovo istraživanje će dati uvid u moguću tipologiju izložbi arhitekture koje su organizovane u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji između 1945. i 1991. godine. Predmetne izložbe su posmatrane kao kolektivna aktivnost, čija analiza omogućava uvid u širi kontekst društvenih, ekonomskih, političkih i kulturnih dešavanja u Jugoslaviji posle Drugog svetskog rata, kao i status koji je arhitektura kao praksa imala u njima. Imajući u vidu da se govori o različitim izložbama, sa velikim brojem parametara po kojima su bile slične ili različite, u ovom radu će se ukazati na proces formiranja izložbene tipologije, kako bi se omogućila klasifikacija za njihovo sistematsko proučavanje. U posebnoj studiji će biti urađena tipologija koja će se primenjivati u procesu istraživanja arhitektonskih izložbi, njihove uloge i značaja na određenom rasponu u određenom vremenskom periodu.