After Utopia
Between 2023 and 2025, I travelled to Split, Croatia, photographing the district of Split 3.
Built between 1968 and 1982 according to the modernist urban plan known as the Split Development Model, the neighbourhood was conceived by urban planners and architects as a self-sufficient urban organism, developed under the ideological framework of Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia.
From the outset, Split 3 was designed in close dialogue with the Mediterranean landscape and the natural topography of the site. Its architecture already possessed an organic rhythm shaped by terraces, pedestrian routes and open spaces woven into the terrain.
Over time, vegetation, climate and the everyday practices of its residents have further transformed this relationship. Rather than erasing the original vision, they have softened and extended it, blurring the boundaries between architecture and landscape.
The series explores how nature and community have influenced the evolution of Split 3’s founding urban ideas. Today, architecture no longer appears as an object set within nature, but as an integral part of a living landscape.
Between 2023 and 2025, I travelled to Split, Croatia, photographing the district of Split 3.
Built between 1968 and 1982 according to the modernist urban plan known as the Split Development Model, the neighbourhood was conceived by urban planners and architects as a self-sufficient urban organism, developed under the ideological framework of Tito’s socialist Yugoslavia.
From the outset, Split 3 was designed in close dialogue with the Mediterranean landscape and the natural topography of the site. Its architecture already possessed an organic rhythm shaped by terraces, pedestrian routes and open spaces woven into the terrain.
Over time, vegetation, climate and the everyday practices of its residents have further transformed this relationship. Rather than erasing the original vision, they have softened and extended it, blurring the boundaries between architecture and landscape.
The series explores how nature and community have influenced the evolution of Split 3’s founding urban ideas. Today, architecture no longer appears as an object set within nature, but as an integral part of a living landscape.
