Untitled (Archive ST3: Content) is part of the ongoing project Untitled (Archive ST3), initiated in 2015, which explores the architectural, social and material legacy of modernist urban planning, particularly through the development of Split 3 in Split, Croatia.
The series draws on black-and-white photographs by Zvonimir Buljević, a renowned Split photographer who contributed to the original Split 3 project as a technical collaborator. His images offer a photographic walk through the newly built neighbourhoods of Trstenik and Smrdečac, documenting significant examples of large-scale residential architecture. Captured during the development of these neighbourhoods, the photographs show a city in formation, allowing architectural surfaces and volumes to be read before they acquired the accumulated traces of habitation and use. Through dynamic compositions that connect built form with the Mediterranean landscape, Buljević also records the city’s expansion into former vineyards and agricultural land.
The resulting works are hybrids of photography, relief and object. Industrial colour-correction filters are applied to the photographs and perforated with excerpts from Split 3: Basic Urban Design, a planning document produced by the Urban Planning Institute of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in 1969. Alongside technical specifications, the document articulates the collective ambitions that informed the project. Its idealistic language presents the city as an act of will, requiring conscious design and the active engagement of the community.
Superimposed on the photographs, these textual fragments reconnect architectural form with the principles that guided its creation. The layered works examine the relationship between planning and construction, architectural intention and urban reality, inviting viewers to reconsider the relevance of these collective ambitions to the city today.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Untitled (Archive ST3: Content) at AŽ Gallery – Žitnjak Studios, Zagreb, Croatia, in 2018.
The series draws on black-and-white photographs by Zvonimir Buljević, a renowned Split photographer who contributed to the original Split 3 project as a technical collaborator. His images offer a photographic walk through the newly built neighbourhoods of Trstenik and Smrdečac, documenting significant examples of large-scale residential architecture. Captured during the development of these neighbourhoods, the photographs show a city in formation, allowing architectural surfaces and volumes to be read before they acquired the accumulated traces of habitation and use. Through dynamic compositions that connect built form with the Mediterranean landscape, Buljević also records the city’s expansion into former vineyards and agricultural land.
The resulting works are hybrids of photography, relief and object. Industrial colour-correction filters are applied to the photographs and perforated with excerpts from Split 3: Basic Urban Design, a planning document produced by the Urban Planning Institute of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia in 1969. Alongside technical specifications, the document articulates the collective ambitions that informed the project. Its idealistic language presents the city as an act of will, requiring conscious design and the active engagement of the community.
Superimposed on the photographs, these textual fragments reconnect architectural form with the principles that guided its creation. The layered works examine the relationship between planning and construction, architectural intention and urban reality, inviting viewers to reconsider the relevance of these collective ambitions to the city today.
The works were produced for the solo exhibition Untitled (Archive ST3: Content) at AŽ Gallery – Žitnjak Studios, Zagreb, Croatia, in 2018.