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CONSTRUCTION HISTORY International Journal of the Construction History Society, 2023
An analysis of four industrial complexes of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, studied for decades but wit... more An analysis of four industrial complexes of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, studied for decades but without interest in a
systematic examination of their construction characteristics, reveals the path to the modernization of construction and
the first appearance of reinforced concrete at the turn of the nineteenth century. With its demands for state-of-the-art
structures, spans and materials, the industrial buildings spurred the modernization of construction in an agrarian
country in a similarly agrarian Austro-Hungarian Empire. The modest utilitarian architecture, mainly neglected and
abandoned today hides early concrete and reinforced concrete patents and the first complete reinforced concrete
structures. The protagonists of this process were mainly construction companies and foreign engineers. This paper
provides a tentative review of the development of construction in Croatia at the turn of the nineteenth century through
a comparative analysis of the first concrete and reinforced concrete use in four representative industrial complexes in
the capital and those of previously studied structures in the most developed industrial centre of the time, Rijeka.
CONSTRUCTION HISTORY International Journal of the Construction History Society, 2023
An analysis of four industrial complexes of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, studied for decades but wit... more An analysis of four industrial complexes of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, studied for decades but without interest in a
systematic examination of their construction characteristics, reveals the path to the modernization of construction and
the first appearance of reinforced concrete at the turn of the nineteenth century. With its demands for state-of-the-art
structures, spans and materials, the industrial buildings spurred the modernization of construction in an agrarian
country in a similarly agrarian Austro-Hungarian Empire. The modest utilitarian architecture, mainly neglected and
abandoned today hides early concrete and reinforced concrete patents and the first complete reinforced concrete
structures. The protagonists of this process were mainly construction companies and foreign engineers. This paper
provides a tentative review of the development of construction in Croatia at the turn of the nineteenth century through
a comparative analysis of the first concrete and reinforced concrete use in four representative industrial complexes in
the capital and those of previously studied structures in the most developed industrial centre of the time, Rijeka.