Milica Božić
THE POSSIBILITY OF A THIRD LANDSCAPE: DOBROVIC AND LOPUD
S u m m a r y
The paper examines how the three works of Nikola Dobrović on Lopud - the Hotel "Grand" (1934-1936), the Viktor Dyk monument (1936), and the villa Vesna (1939), as well as the island as a whole, initiate a discussion on contemporary architectural landscape concepts. The particular focus of the research is the Third landscape, a construct that implies the institutionalization of territories surrendered to natural evolution, through examining the possibility of its implementation on Lopud. Various political, social, natural, cultural, and other factors influenced the temporal transformation of the appearance and function of Dobrović's projects on Lopud, as well as their relationship to the natural context. Within the scope of these three selected projects, different spatial, social, and ecological issues concerning the future development of this territory emerge, which at the same time reexamine the potential broader meanings of Dobrović's understanding of the landscape.
In this regard, the main goal of this research is to identify the various relationships that Dobrović's works form with the natural elements of Lopud. The research methodology involves design-driven research, which includes three steps: a comparative analysis of historical and contemporary photographs, architectural assembly, and the formation of a point cloud model. The results of this research demonstrate the possibility of speculative reading and transformation of these spaces, which testifies to the change in the understanding of the modernity of Dobrovic's projects over time.
Keywords: Nikola Dobrovic, Lopud, the Third landscape, design-driven reserach
