Viktor Kovaaiiaa

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Viktor Koväi¿ (1874-1924) was a Croatian architect. His projects are marked with subtle purity of reduced elements of historicism, like in monumental Stock Exchange Palace (Croatian: Paläa Burze, today the Croatian National Bank headquarters) in Zagreb, 1924. The modern Croatian architecture appeared with Viktor Koväi¿ who was the first to speak against historicism and represented the idea that architecture must be individual and modern, but also practical and comfortable. From the thirties the works of "Zagreb school of architecture" can stand alongside with the best world architecture. They are especially interesting because of merging of two opposite directions in architecture of those days - functionalist and organic.