Tamara Bjažić Klarin

Tamara Bjažić Klarin is Senior research adviser at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. She graduated in architecture and earned her PhD in art history at the University of Zagreb. Until 2015, she worked as an assistant and senior assistant at the Croatian Museum of Architecture of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. She was a scholarship holder of the French Republic and the Swiss National Science Foundation as well as an academic guest at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. She is the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project The Right to Housing: Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991) and a collaborator on the Croatian Science Foundation project Architecture and the Culture of Housing in Zagreb 1880–1940. Together with Andras Ferkai, she led the bilateral project Architectural Encounters between Croatia and Hungary: Models of Professional Knowledge Exchange, 1914–1945.

She is the author of the books Ernest Weissmann: Socially Engaged Architecture, 1926–1939 (awarded the Neven Šegvić Award of the Croatian Architects’ Association) and For a New, More Beautiful Zagreb! – Architectural and Urban Planning Competitions in Interwar Zagreb, 1918–1941 (awarded the Charter of the Croatian Society of Art Historians).

She is a doctoral mentor at the University of Zadar, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana.

She was a member of the regional advisory team for the exhibition Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 (MoMA) and co-authored of several exhibitions in leading museum institutions in Croatia. She is also a co-screenwriter of several documentary films in the Croatian Television series on architecture.

She is one of the founding members of Docomomo Croatia.