• Articles
Mikić, V.: “Developmental programs for border areas in Croatia”, magazine “Građevinar”, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch) and Journal Citation Reports/Science edicion), 2010, vol. 62 No. 2, pp, 123-131. ISSN: 0350-2465, UDK 624+69(05)=862.
The admission of Croatia to the European Union intensifies the meaning of regional development. The idea of regional connection is the center around which activities in economic, social and cultural development are being structured, especially in border areas, in order to harmonize the European space. The displayed projects and programs are the initial subjects of the future cross-border development within the Interreg initiative. The projects represent structural interventions that open new possibilities for development in the regions of Gorski Kotar and Podravina. The enclosed text considers matters that are the subject of cooperation of technical, social and humanistic sciences. Within that framework, an exemplary overview of the problematics of regional development in border areas has been provided, as joint project of the stated disciplines. The importance of such theoretical considerations for practical implementation cannot be emphasized sufficiently.
Mikić, V.: “Sketches of the architect Josip Pičman”, magazine “Prostor”, Art and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) - Web of Science (Wos), 2009, vol. 17, No. 38, pp: 298-313. ISSN: 1330-0652, UDK 71/72.
The annex represents and interprets for the first time the sketches of architect Josip Pičman (1904-1936) from the family collection displayed at the author’s retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Architecture in Zagreb 1998. The time of origin of the sketches is mostly unknown except for the latest works, on numerous phantasmagorias and masks where we find the exact date of origin. This study is a contribution to the elaboration of monograph on the author and his work, seven decades after his tragic death. Known by four realized objects and some thirty projects among which there are won tenders, studies etc. Pičman does not cease to attract interest, particularly of his fellow architects. His architectonic projects are inspired by a great creative force and each of them bears components of modern architectonic expression so they remain until present day the liveliest incitement to the new era.
Mikić, V.: “Joint projects of architects Seissel and Pičman. With Seissel’s sketch «Travelling city» from 1932”, magazine “Prostor”, Art and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) - Web of Science (Wos), 2010, vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 348-359. ISSN: 1330-0652, UDK 71/72.
Mikić, V.: “Joint projects of architects Seissel and Pičman. With Seissel’s sketch «Travelling city» from 1932”, magazine “Prostor”, Art and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) - Web of Science (Wos), 2010, vol. 18, No. 40, pp. 348-359. ISSN: 1330-0652, UDK 71/72.
V. Mikić (2004): Significance of architectonic detail in the works of Viktor Kovačić, Peristyle, No. 46; pages 119-126.
This text is creative denotation of the wide theme on the essential role, meaning and life of details in architectural creation and implies further theoretical dissection of the author. The author has chosen the manner of her interpretation with proper measure, probably with the intention to incite interest for this - with us rare theme and rare manner of expression - hence this manner is a valuable contribution to our sparse theory of architecture. From the excellently noted details on Kovačić’s works and the knowledgeable comparison with the Vienna secession-Wagnerian examples, the author denotes the possible approach to the study of details in the integrity of the object in general, as key and often covered and discrete bearer of the basic spatial thought, noting that the architectonic element is not her interest in the formal since but rather its “spiritual charge which liberates it as creation” in the personal author’s handwriting woven into the context of certain cultural circle by which the detail itself does not exist, but to which the detail itself provides key spiritual designations as builder of the important architectonic relations and aesthetic display. With this text the author also provides impetus for the specific study on Kovačić’s work in the complex context of European space at the transit of centuries, which we still haven’t fulfilled not even remotely. The text of assistant professor D.Sc. Vesna Mikić is very clearly and concisely written, appropriately documented (notes, literature, summary) and illustrated, therefore I highly recommend it for publishing in the magazine “Peristil” as valuable contribution to our theory of architecture. (from the book review written by D.Sc. Tomislav Premerl)
V. Mikić (2003): Classicist element in the modern, “Prostor”, 11(2/26/); pages 137-144, Zagreb
The author examines and speculates on the creative course of modern architecture towards clean form in the creation of new “style” inevitably marked by affiliation with the classics of architecture in theoretical sense. The author successfully shows that we can judge the modern today by understanding the classicity as historical constant of creativity. This course, although not explicitly, was also followed by the protagonists of Modernism. The author’s reaching for classicism of the first half of the 19th century and the beginning of industrial architecture is interesting since they are characterized by consistency and sternness in form which stems out of classicism.
V. Mikić (2004): Classicity of Ulrich’s modernity, “Prostor” 12 (1/27/), Zagreb
The article of assistant professor D.Sc. Vesna Mikić is a systematic pondering and analysis of Ulrich's work – the bearer of Modernism and classicist continuity in Croatian architecture. The author explains those notions and puts them in relation in which in her own way she interprets the foundations of modern architecture in Croatia. With Ulrich's works she manages to show how in modernism we have to accept classicity as appropriate choice of time when striving to purify forms on the way towards Modernism. The author analyzes all her theses with the comparative method, not only through Ulrich's works, but also through works of world architecture. In this way the author shows modernity as historical constant of creativity.
Goss, V.P.; Mikić, V.: “Three Miniatures on the Assigned Theme – Jakob, Jelena, Bogdan”, magazine «Studia mythologica Slavica», 2010, XIII , Založba ZRC Ljubljana, ISSN 1408-6271
Building upon the research of cultural anthropologists and linguists in the area of the Southern Slavs, in particular in Croatia and Slovenia, the authors offers three examples of so far unnoticed paradigms of the mythical landscape», and link them to the phenomenon of the cultural landscape and its creation, as seen by the field of the history of visual art.
Mikić, V.: “On the evolution of modernity’s classicity, from Schinkel to Kovačić and Pičman“ 2009, Works of the Institute for History of Art, BHA Bibliography of the History of Art, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France / Santa Monica. Cal. USA. No. 33, pp. 283-294. ISSN: 0350-3437, UDK 7.0/77.
Three examples from Berlin, Zagreb and Sarajevo, by authors K. F. Schinkel, V. Kovačić and J. Pičman, comprising the timespan between 1816 and 1934 are the basis for consideration of the development of Modernism when leaned on the postulates of classic architecture, exemplified in classicism. The beginning of that process is represented by the work of K. F. Schinkel, while the remaining examples are selected by leaning on the criterion of relevance of the personal contributions of V. Kovačić and J. Pičman to that process in the Zagreb architecture. The thesis is supported by projects for public spaces, squares, parks, therefore, urban-architectural entireties which belong to the highest assignments of architecture. Comparison confirms that fundamental postulates, despite their stylistic differences, secure evolution from classicism to international style and that classicism is inherent to modernism.
• Symposia, conferences
Mikić, V.: “Urban villas in Zagreb between the two world wars”, lecture held at the 8. Congress U.I.F.A. in Washington DC”, SAD, theme of the congress: „Housing, an international issue“, World congress of women architects, 1988.
Lecture held on world attainments of the architecture of luxury villas belonging to Croatian Modernism in Zagreb. Modern attainments are particularly reflected in the understanding of universal attainments which do not disown local culture and tradition, in understanding the location, especially read out from the interpretation of materials, light, climate, relief.
Mikić, V. and Filep, S.: “Presentation of the project HyCro-Croatia“. International conference “Urbanism on the border”, “Cities, architecture and society“, 3.11.2006, Venice, Zorzi Palace. Invited lecture.
The project Hyper Croatia, within the curriculum of the Faculty of Architecture (Hyper Croatia – Global in the local and vice versa) contains long-term research of space and culture of continental Croatia, and identification of its place in European culture on basis of the potential of sustainable development and recognizability of regions. Each region has its own local specificity, architectonic vocabulary, cultural characteristics that need to be detected in order to be assessed, and then used as fundament for contemporary architecture during which conventional interpretation of traditional and local should be avoided. The value of the project rests in familiarizing the students of architecture with values of Croatian regions and the strivings for their sanation with professional assesment and incorporating traditional values into new architectonic-urbanistic solutions.
Mikić, V.: „Interreg” projects of sustainable development, and education of students of architecture” Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development
3-5 November, 2009. Volume of CSAAR Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN 1992-7320), Tripoli. Abstract: Croatian border areas have great potentials for development owing to the favourable procedures of candidacy for Interreg, the non-repayable loans from the pre-accession funds of the European Union, allocated for the cross-border cooperation. Under these conditions the process of the cross-border cooperation paved the way to a number of incentive projects in the Croatian economy. The process is based on sustainability aimed at reducing economic and social differences among the European regions that emerged as a result of the establishment of the integrated European market.
Mikić, V.: “Interreg” projects of sustainable development, and education of students of architecture”, Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development
3-5 November, 2009. Volume of CSAAR Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN 1992-7320), Tripoli. Abstract: Croatian border areas have great potentials for development owing to the favorable procedures of candidacy for Interreg, the non-repayable loans from the pre-accession funds of the European Union, allocated for the cross-border cooperation. Under these conditions the process of the cross-border cooperation paved the way to a number of incentive projects in the Croatian economy. The process is based on sustainability aimed at reducing economic and social differences among the European regions that emerged as a result of the establishment of the integrated European market.
Mikić, V.: “Interreg” projects of sustainable development of regions and education of students of architecture, lecture held at the 2. International conference in Mošćenica, October 23rd and 24th 2009; Revitalization of small historic cities and their environment in the Primorsko-Goranska County”, “Ekovast”, Collection, ISBN 978-953-97540-1-1; pages 51-54.
The Croatian border spaces have great prospect for development due to the procedures of applying for non-returnable financial means from the pre-accession funds of the European Union “Interreg”, intended for cross border cooperation. In those circumstances, the process of cross border cooperation has enabled series of inciting projects in Croatian economy. The processes are founded on sustainability which has as its aim decrease of economic and social differences between European regions that occurred after the creation of unified market. The programs in the region of Gorski Kotar and Podravina stem from the pedagogic programs of the Faculty of Architecture with the University in Zagreb. They have unfolded in three preparational phases through multilayered process of teaching about preservation of regional culture in contemporary conditions. Regional culture of thought is in the vitality of Ricoeur's thought of the 1960's and its later architectonic critical interpretation of the cultural identity of Kenneth Frampton.
Mikić, V.: “Characteristics of architectonic detail in the works of V. Kovačić”, lecture held at HAZU Symposium: “Viktor Kovačić – life and work”, 1994. “Collection of works - Viktor Kovačić life and work“, 2003, HAZU, ISBN: 953-154-026-8; pp. 301-312.
The author has chosen the manner of her interpretation with proper measure, probably with the intention to incite interest for this - with us rare theme and rare manner of expression - hence this manner is a valuable contribution to our sparse theory of architecture. From the excellently noted details on Kovačić’s works and the knowledgeable comparison with the Vienna secession-Wagnerian examples, the author denotes the possible approach to the study of details in the integrity of the object in general, as key and often covered and discrete bearer of the basic spatial thought, noting that the architectonic element is not her interest in the formal since but rather its “spiritual charge which liberates it as creation”.
Mikić, V and Filep S.: lecture: “Aspects of public space in the Filep-Mikić projects”, “Public space”, International conference, 1996, Zagreb, organized by the editorial staff of ČIP.
This lecture problematizes the creation of public spaces within new residential agglomerations and genesis of possible types. Subject to particular elaboration is the public space constructed within tender for new residential settlement Kajzerica, following the trace of the similar Cvjetno Naselje on the northern part of the Sava riveras well as their genesis related to the active space of Sava within the wider space of the city of Zagreb.
Mikić, V.: lectures: „Modernity of Croatian architecture in the works of Antun Ulrich”, „Croatian architecture u XX. Century”, Scientific meeting, Matica hrvatska, Zagreb, 8th – 10th November 2007, “Collection of works”; ISBN: 978-957-150-871-1. “Croatian architecture of the XX century”, 2009, pp. 97-110
Thesis on the classicity of architect Antun Ulrich's opus given in the wider context of classicity of the Zagreb school of architecture which becomes its paradigm. With its structure and engagement, the Zagreb school becomes a notion deeply rooted in the wider cultural space. In Croatian architecture, Ulrich is one of the key promoters of Modernism in which he was actively present since 1928 when the building of the Rowing Club „Uskok“ on Sava was built as his first realized object. He is representative of the generation of some sixty Croatian architects who created between the two world wars and marked Croatian architecture with values of the new time with entirely European atmosphere. Ulrich's modernism is classic in terms of consolidation and tendency towards clean forms. Classicity as characteristics of the movement of Modernism stems from the complex of fin de siecle and strives toward modernity. The fundamental questions of architecture actualized upon fin de siecle could have been answered only by classicism. Classicity is directed toward the notional measure of perfect art, however not by formal elements but by mastering the structure through proportion, not with the aim to achieve stylistic designation but because of its skill to arrange concepts in architectonic form, to respond to the fundamental questions of rational architecture, to tectonics, geometry, proportion, rhythm and manner of construction.
Mikić, V.: “Interventions on the industrial heritage of Zagreb within pedagogical programs of the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb”, International conference on industrial heritage, , RIJEKA AND SHIP-BUILDING HERITAGE: yesterday-today-tomorrow, Rijeka, Croatia, 22nd – 23rd April 2010.
Paromlin (1907/08), Machinery Compartment of the State Railway 1894 and Nada Dimić (factory Penkala 1908) are objects sitting on the passage from the old city tissue to the new city forum. Factory objects of the 19th century that decidedly participate in the image of the city of Zagreb which is known by today's Zagreb as space of its new center. By constant neglecting, it has become an obstacle to the merger of the historical center of the city with the complex of metropolitan center of Zagreb.
“Third Congress of Art Historians of Croatia”, Section: “Messages of the space”, 25th November, 2010. Organizer and supervisor: Prof. PhD Vladimir P. Goss, Faculty of Philosophy, Rijeka. Commentator and discussion mediator: Academician Prof. PhD. Radoslav Katičić, University in Vienna.
Exposition: Eight expositions. Prof. D. Sc. Vesna Mikić: Project Hiper Hrvatska (HiCro) – continental Croatia
The project Hiper Hrvatska (HiCro) within the work frame of the pedagogical curriculum of the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb researches the multilayerness, multidimensionality and multiperspectiveness of the process within preservation of traditional heritage and sustainable development of natural and cultural space and culture of regional Croatia. The theoretical part “recognizability of a region” is researched on basis of existing literature, while the practical part is based on chosen localities where detailed spatial-program and urbanistic-architectural studies (“case studies”) are conducted. The basic aim of the project is to set a research model which will be used as basis for systematic mapping and valorization of all existing (natural) and created (cultural) values. Project areas of particular interest are the ones where the existing values in spaces have not been systematically elaborated and channeled in terms of sustainability of current ecological system.
• Books, editing, college books
She is author of a scientific book:
Architect Antun Ulrich, Classicist of Modernism, Naklada Jurčić, Zagreb, 2002. ISBN 953-6462-55-9.
From the book review written by D.Sc. Olga Maruševski: Vesna Mikić’s book displays period of two centuries that is extraordinarily complex for architecture since in that period there was parallel activity of streams of classicism and romanticism as well as the transition towards the 20th century. She is not constrained by their stylistic manifestations but she concentrates on structural changes during which she consistently follows the one that will confirm the thesis on the classicity of modern architecture. Her research is hence even more interesting because she tries to point out the characteristics not only of one author, Antun Ulrich, but she simultaneously opens a possible theme of introducing classic discourse in the valorization of Croatian modern architecture.
Editorial engagement:
Member of the editorial staff of the magazine for architecture “Arhitektura” 1995-1999.
Editor-in-Chief of the book: “Study of architecture – selection of student works of the Faculty of Architecture 2001/02”, Publisher: Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, 2003, ISBN 953-6229-26-9.
From the book review written by Professor Ivan Crnković: “The selection of student works 2001/2002” provides an insight into the curriculum of the Faculty of Architecture with particular accent on student works. The School’s contouring read out from those works denotes affiliation with Central European architectural schools. Education is streamed with current trends in the architectural reality and are actively determined in line with research of new educational methods. Its objective is homogenous and balanced teaching, the background of which is linking the abstract and scientific with the material and empirical. This book represents a significant document in terms of the positioning the School and its powerful impact on the shaping of the expected profile of a professional – an architect.
Editor-in-Chief of a collection of papers:
Facta Architectonica 1, Collection of expert works of professors at the Faculty of Architecture, 2000-2011. Publisher: Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, 2011, ISBN 978-953-6229-83-3.
Lecture from the college course on the web site of the Faculty of Architecture, as educational text positively assessed by an expert committee.
Mikić, V. (2007) course: “Phenomena of contemporary architecture in spaces of libraries”
Mikić, V. (2009) course: “Contemporary architecture in the region”
College book of the International Summer School of Architecture Hicro-Croatia 2005/06, Podravina, organized by the Faculty of Architecture (technical realization: Net.Studio Aranea)
College book of the International Summer School of Architecture Hicro-Croatia 2006/07. Identity of Gorski Kotar and the Gacka, organized by the Faculty of Architecture (technical realization: Net.Studio Aranea)
College book of the International Summer School of Architecture Hicro-Croatia 2008/09. Identity of the Municipality of Skrad, Municipality of Skrad, organized by the Faculty of Architecture (technical realization: Net.Studio Aranea)
• Scientific projects
Since 1990-95 she has been actively participating as a resident fellow (registration number 114870) on the scientific project Since 1990-95 she has been actively participating as a resident fellow (registration number 114870) on the scientific project ”, the bearer of which was Professor D.Sc. Miroslav Begović. The project continued in 1997 upon which she continued to participate in it (project code 101-117) with independent “The possibility of tourist development in the region of Gorski Kotar”.
“Romanesque in the area between the rivers Sava and Drava and the European culture” (MZOS No. 009-1300623-0946 Supervisor: D.Sc., tenured professor Vladimir Peter Goss, Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka. Researchers: associate professor, D.Sc. Vesna Mikić, D.Sc. Goran Jakovljević, junior researcher-assistant Maja Cepetić, junior researcher-assistant Danko Dujmović, junior researcher-assistant Vjekoslav Jukić
Perception of “history and historic-cultural reading of landscape” through contemporariness. The reading is built in the educational process within the Hicro project and the summer schools held by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb and as such is built in the scientific project through understanding and historical reading.
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