Attributing and Defining an Unbuilt 1859 Architectural Plan for the Site of Trogir’s Medieval Walls

Ana Šverko

doi:10.31522/p.29.2(62).2

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This paper discusses the attribution of an anonymous and unbuilt 1859 plan for a four-storey apartment building with commercial spaces on the ground floor, located on the site of the old town walls in Trogir. It proposes Josip Slade as the architect of the plan, interpreting Slade’s architectural language and the development of his approach to architectural heritage. An analysis of the project in a historical socio-political and spatial context, moreover, supports the conclusion that this was intended as rental property, and this paper therefore offers insights into the first known example of the tenement housing building typology in the nineteenth-century Trogir

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The archives of the Garagnin-Fanfogna family, kept in what was once the residence of this Dalmatian family of Venetian background and is today the Trogir City Museum, contain a plan for a residential building with a café and shops on the ground floor
An analysis of the project in a historical socio-political and spatial context, supports the conclusion that this was intended as rental property, and this paper offers insights into the first known example of the tenement housing building typology in the nineteenth-century Trogir
Slade’s plan for the wider area is evidence of this; here, he adds a range of buildings in front of the old part of the town (Fisković, 1987: Fig. 8). With these two-storey structures, along with three other buildings, Slade created a continuous line along the shore in front of the south-western part of the town walls, the demolition of which had begun in the mid-nineteenth century

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Ana Šverko

UDC 721 728 (497.5 Trogir) ”18” Technical Sciences / Architecture and Urban Planning 2.01.04. - History and Theory of Architecture and Preservation of the Built Heritage Article Received / Accepted: 21. This paper discusses the attribution of an anonymous and unbuilt 1859 plan for a four-storey apartment building with commercial spaces on the ground floor, located on the site of the old town walls in Trogir. It proposes Josip Slade as the architect of the plan, interpreting Slade’s architectural language and the development of his approach to architectural heritage. Šverko Attributing and Defining an Unbuilt 1859 Architectural Plan

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