Dobrović in Dubrovnik traces the past and the present of avant-garde modern architecture constructed in the nineteen- thirties, in the Mediterranean landscape of the south Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. Comprehensive historical, theoretical, and phenomenological readings of events and forms, in two essays by architects Krunoslav Ivanišin and Ljiljana Blagojević respectively, describe a specific yet, by its spirit, universal Venture in Modern Architecture. Spatially condensed to an area within ten square miles and temporally to less than ten years, these quintessentially modern villas, gardens, and hotels built seventy years ago by the architect Nikola Dobrović (1897–1967), are presented through previously unpublished original design drawings, black and white photographs from the period of their construction, and the contemporary color photographs by Wolfgang Thaler. The color plates depict precisely the beauty in decay of heroic works of international modern architecture and convey admirably their meaningful Mediterranean resilience.Dobrović in Dubrovnik traces the past and the present of avant-garde modern architecture constructed in the nineteen- thirties, in the Mediterranean landscape of the south Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea. Comprehensive historical, theoretical, and phenomenological readings of events and forms, in two essays by architects Krunoslav Ivanišin and Ljiljana Blagojević respectively, describe a specific yet, by its spirit, universal Venture in Modern Architecture. Spatially condensed to an area within ten square miles and temporally to less than ten years, these quintessentially modern villas, gardens, and hotels built seventy years ago by the architect Nikola Dobrović (1897–1967), are presented through previously unpublished original design drawings, black and white photographs from the period of their construction, and the contemporary color photographs by Wolfgang Thaler. The color plates depict precisely the beauty in decay of heroic works of international modern architecture and convey admirably their meaningful Mediterranean resilience.Dobrović in Dubrovnik begibt sich auf die Spuren von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der in den 1930er Jahren in der mediterranen Landschaft um die süddalmatinische Adria-küste entstandenen Avantgardearchitektur. In umfassenden historischen, theoretischen und phänomenologischen Betrachtungen zu Geschehnissen und Bauformen beschreiben die Architekten Krunoslav Ivanišin und Ljiljana Blagojević in ihren beiden Essays ein spezifisches, doch gleichzeitig universelles Venture in Modern Architecture. Auf einem Gebiet von nur zehn Quadratmeilen über einen Zeitraum von weniger als zehn Jahren erbaute der Architekt Nikola Dobrović (1897–1967) vor 70 Jahren diese durch und durch modernen Villen, Gärten und Hotels, die hier in Entwurfszeichnungen, Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien aus ihrer Entstehungszeit und aktuellen Farbfotografien von Wolfgang Thaler präsentiert werden. Die Farbaufnahmen veranschaulichen die Schönheit dieser im Verfall befindlichen heroischen architektonischen Werke der internationalen Moderne und vermitteln eindrucksvoll ihre beredte mediterrane Unverwüstlichkeit.