“The system of an open book” consists of stone walls at right angles and the glass sheets of room tissue that stand in between the walls like fans. It is a house – a book. The scale of the walls: 200-100 fathoms and sights …
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INFRASTRUCTURE OF HIDDEN PLACES – THE NEED FOR PLACE
Architecture, subordinate to man, has always served to provide, contribute, create, preserve, define, assist, facilitate and amaze. It has always in some way essentially been infrastructure, a back-up system, utilized by man. However, the power it entails fulfilling various desires overpowers the man – thus giving rise to new questions. It becomes a powerful factor which further affects people’s needs. Architecture creates architecture. Today, reexamining function of architecture brings us back to man and his basic needs-such as is the need for place.
IS THERE A DUAL PLEASURE?
The overall picture shows that the modern age has brought most of the elements that contribute to the quality of experiencing things that surround us. The architecture is an example where it is commonly realized. Being a kind of art that is used for the basic necessities of life it can have a dual role in the process of experiencing, thus it is not fair to arbiter which of them is more important to those who use it or those who take pleasure in it.
Central Square in Požega
Following the decree of Duke Miloš, in 1832, the engineer Lazar Zuban, secretary of the Governing Soviet of the Principality, has laid the regulation line and formed a circular square. Besides the plan of Poreč (Donji Milanovac) from 1831, the plans of Požega and Karanovac (Kraljevo) represent the first activities of urban planning in Serbia.
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