HOTEL RUŽA MOSTAR: TRANSITIONAL HETEROTOPIAS IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM Cover Image
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Hotel Ruža Mostar: Tranzicijske heterotopije u arhitekturi i urbanizmu
HOTEL RUŽA MOSTAR: TRANSITIONAL HETEROTOPIAS IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Author(s): Majda Turkić, Bernard Harbaš
Subject(s): Architecture, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Social Theory, Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Fakultet humanističkih nauka, Univerzitet »Džemal Bijedić« u Mostaru
Keywords: Mostar;Hotel Ruža;

Summary/Abstract: This essay aims to elucidate how political paradigm transitions affect trends in architecture and urbanization. For this purpose, the Foucault term heterotopias are used as the notion that reflects architectural and constructed objects as not merely being places of living, but also the status and power symbols of certain individuals and the ruling oligarchy. To illustrate our premise, we used a devastated, organically constructed, socialistic Hotel Ruža, located in the old town city center, which was later, during the postwar reconstruction, turned into a modern building. Today, this newly reconstructed hotel aims to show the guests’ affiliation to a specific social class and create the simulacrum that Mostar is an urbanized and modern city that possesses traditional elements interposed with contemporary urbanistic constructs. However, at the same time, this modern building’s construction serves to create a feeling or an illusion that the country is approaching western, developed urban spaces, while the reality is very different.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 121-130
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian