Morphological persistence in Zadar historical centre reconstruction
Résumé
As an Italian exclave in Dalmatia, Zadar was bombed by the Allied army during World War II for almost a year, from November 1943 to October 1944, leading to the destruction of a large part of the old Venetian city. Once gone to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1947, the city managed the reconstruction of the historic centre. A design competition, inspired by the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, was launched in 1953, with the aim of developing an organic plan for the whole historic fabric. This has been the opportunity to discuss different approaches and to define a strategy for reconstruction moving away from both identical reconstruction and modern breakout.
This paper aims at questioning the doctrines of reconstruction and restoration at urban scale challenged by the reconstruction of the historic centre of Zadar. It proposes a critical review of such process by comparing some proposals of the competition. Thus, it focuses on the final masterplan, developed under the coordination of the architect Bruno Milic to highlight its specific features and question it through restoration principles, as expressed by Cesare Brandi and the Venice Charter.
The critical review is based on the documentary sources of the presented proposals as well as on literature issues relevant to the debate of the time. It relies, as well, on a comparative approach with other emblematic experiences of post-war reconstruction in Europe, to reveal the particular features of the modern historic centre of Zadar.
In the panorama of post-war reconstruction approaches, Zadar reconstruction process achieves a rare philological interpretation of restoration on an urban scale, integrating gaps and stratifying the urban historical landscape without neither hiding history nor renouncing to its own present time.
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