Politics, Architecture and its Role on Shaping Society The Example of Yugoslavia during Tito’s Administration
Session
Integrated Design
Description
Yugoslav architecture traced ideological, political and economic instructions. In parallel there was a historic persistence in every consistent republic and their arising architecture. Interwar period was a time of emergence of modern architecture in Yugoslavia through an architects that studied in Western schools or worked in prominent architect’s offices of a time. Yugoslav architects merged modernist approach with traditional elements advancing orthodox modernist venture. Despite that Socialist Yugoslavia searched for unified national identity, the architecture of a country was diverse since each consistent republic digested modernism it in its own way. The aim for modernity and the way to explore it, was unifying characteristic portrayed in cities of Yugoslavia. After the 1960s architecture in Yugoslavia as a protagonist finds its unique character touching all the cities of a region and represents country in international platform as modern in Western perspective.
Keywords:
Architecture, Politics, Yugoslavia, Kosova, Modernism
Session Chair
Artrit Bytyçi
Session Co-Chair
Sara Sylejmani
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-437-96-7
Location
Lipjan, Kosovo
Start Date
31-10-2020 9:00 AM
End Date
31-10-2020 10:30 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2020.201
Recommended Citation
Sylejmani, Sara, "Politics, Architecture and its Role on Shaping Society The Example of Yugoslavia during Tito’s Administration" (2020). UBT International Conference. 82.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2020/all_events/82
Politics, Architecture and its Role on Shaping Society The Example of Yugoslavia during Tito’s Administration
Lipjan, Kosovo
Yugoslav architecture traced ideological, political and economic instructions. In parallel there was a historic persistence in every consistent republic and their arising architecture. Interwar period was a time of emergence of modern architecture in Yugoslavia through an architects that studied in Western schools or worked in prominent architect’s offices of a time. Yugoslav architects merged modernist approach with traditional elements advancing orthodox modernist venture. Despite that Socialist Yugoslavia searched for unified national identity, the architecture of a country was diverse since each consistent republic digested modernism it in its own way. The aim for modernity and the way to explore it, was unifying characteristic portrayed in cities of Yugoslavia. After the 1960s architecture in Yugoslavia as a protagonist finds its unique character touching all the cities of a region and represents country in international platform as modern in Western perspective.