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Vedran Mimica

Croatian architect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2023
Entity authorityQ7918017 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vedran Mimica (born 1954 in Zagreb) is a Croatian architect and educator who teaches at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is known for being the last director of the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from 2002–2012.

References

External links

"Vedran Mimica / Persons / The Berlage". The Berlage. 2018-09-17. Archived from the original on 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2023-07-01.

"Vedran Mimica | Illinois Institute of Technology". www.iit.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-01.

Editorial summary

“Vedran Mimica” enters the record as croatian architect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vedran, Mimica and Croatian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 2002, 2012, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vedran, Mimica and Croatian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Vedran Mimica” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vedran, Mimica and Croatian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7918017. VIAF identifies the subject as 34391987. The Library of Congress control number is nr2002017397. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954, 2002, 2012 and 2018.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vedran Mimica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.