Franich, Ivan

Ivan Franić ( Croatian Ivan Franić ; born February 27, 1939 , Zagreb ) is a Croatian architect.

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb (1963). In 1964-1973 and 1978-1983. worked in various Zagreb design institutes, in 1973-1977. conducted research at the Institute of Civil Engineering of Croatia, in 1977-1978. Trained in Denmark. In 1983-1987 Director of the Engineering and Construction Association Industrogradnja . In 1987, he founded and led the design association Plan .

Despite the fact that in general Franich specialized in designing industrial facilities, his most famous work is the Catholic Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Mostar : the Franich project (in collaboration with his wife Hildegard Auf-Franich) won the competition in five other five Yugoslav architects in 1972, construction was completed in 1980. In addition, Franich owns the projects of the Kartonplast factory in Ploce , several oil refinery facilities in Bosanski Brod , the warehouse of the Konzum trading company in the Zagreb district of Zhitnyak, etc. In the 1990s. He was engaged in housing construction, was one of the authors of the reconstruction project of Starcevic Square in the center of Zagreb. Laureate and diploma winner of a number of Yugoslav architectural competitions, including in 1990, together with Bogdan Plechash, received the first prize for the project of a commercial center in Gruž ( Dubrovnik region), but the project was not implemented.