Embodied experience : investingating the relation between architecture, landscape and symbolism in WW2 monuments of socialist YugoslaviaRucli, Vida (Avtor) Zorec, Maruša (Mentor) Skansi, Luka (Komentor) memorylandscapeYugoslaviaexperiencespacemonumentcontextparticipationnaturesite-specificitymovementhapticityEmbodied Experience, investigating the relation between architecture, landscape and symbolism in WW2 monuments of socialist Yugoslavia. The thesis examines one of the less studied topics of modernist monumentality in Socialist Yugoslavia, namely the relation between the memorials and the landscape where they are located. The modernist approach to the topic of memorialization consisted in a synthesis between the memorial content, the form and the spatial context. Within memorial production between ca. 1950 and 1980 all these three topics experienced a total renovation and while the first two were examined in depth, the last one was analyzed only partially. Our thesis will try to fill this gap by analyzing some of the most interesting and complex memorial examples and some of the most influential written production of the time on this topic. The thesis tries to demonstrate that it is the synthesis between the monument-object, the landscape which hosts it and the perceiver who moves through space that makes some of the Yugoslav memorials so powerful and emotionally touching.[V. Rucli]20202022-05-12 13:05:37Magistrsko delo/naloga136616sl