Nikola Bašić
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Nikola Bašić (born 1946) is a
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internationally known for the conception of the
Sea Organ The Sea organ () is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps. History Chaotic reconstruc ...
in
Zadar Zadar ( , ), historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian, ; see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar ...
. He was born on the island of
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and eventually attended the gymnasium in Zadar. In
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, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism. Bašić followed up the
Sea Organ The Sea organ () is an architectural sound art object located in Zadar, Croatia and an experimental musical instrument, which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps. History Chaotic reconstruc ...
with another work on the promenade, just metres away, called the Greeting to the Sun (Pozdrav Suncu). The circular work is powered by the sun and lights up with random patterns and colours. In 2010, Bašić created a memorial to firemen killed in 2007 fighting a wildfire. The work -- the Field of Crosses -- is a set of walls shaped like crosses on the island of Kornat.


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1946 births Architects from Zadar Living people University of Sarajevo alumni Members of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts 20th-century Croatian architects 21st-century Croatian architects {{Croatia-architect-stub