Tamara Bjažić Klarin
Tamara Bjažić Klarin is a research adviser at the Institute of Art History (IPU) in Zagreb. Her scholarly activities revolve around modernization processes, the exchange of knowledge and the involvement of architects in the public sphere in the 19th and 20th century. She authored the acclaimed books Ernest Weissmann, Socially Engaged Architecture, 1926–1939 (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2015) and For a New, More Beautiful Zagreb! Architectural and Planning Competitions of Interwar Zagreb, 1918-1941 (IPU, 2020). She participated in a number of research projects in Croatia and abroad. Her fellowships include those of the French Government and the Swiss National Science Foundation, on which she was an academic guest at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) ETH in Zurich. She is a member of the project teams for the exhibitions Toward a Concrete Utopia. Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 (MOMA, 2018/2019) and Umjetnost i život su jedno“: Udruženje umjetnika Zemlja 1929. –1935. (The Klovićevi dvori Gallery, 2019/2020). She co-wrote the scripts for several dozen documentaries and TV features on architecture (Croatian Radio and Television).