RMB 1.3 - History of Modernism in Central and Southeast Europe

Recommended Prerequisites

N/A

Teaching Methods

he final grade is based on the student's activities in discussions and active attendance during the course. The final
grade includes a midterm presentation of the selected case study, which the student presents in the form of a
Power Point and graphic attachments with short written explanations. This midterm presentation is presented
orally, followed by a discussion, comments and suggestions from the professor. The most important part of the
final grade is a written essay with which the student does an oral presentation.

Learning Outcomes

Distinguish particularities and variable forms of Modernism in architecture within the cultural and geographical
space of Central and Southeast Europe – particularly Serbia, and Balkan region;
Enhance knowledge about the main characteristics and periods of urbanization and landscape transformation in the
Serbian, and Balkan region within the socialist condition and ideology;
Understand these developments in their art-historical, economic, political and demographic context - approach and
contextualize a case study;
Understand and distinguish the historical context of a different types of cases – single spatial units, buildings,
urban settlements, urban blocks, and overall modernist landscape;
Recognize the most important elements of modernist architecture relevant for a given case;
Document and systematize sources and archival material through digitization.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The goal of the course is related to students' understanding of the shaping process of possible variable cultural
forms of Modernism in Serbia and related countries of former Yugoslavia, regarding the particular influences
related to their French, German, Austrian or Czech origins.
Studies will be based on discussion of modernist ideology developing in Serbia, according to related influences of
European Modernist tradition. It is crucial to develop fundamental discussion on the issue through a number of
representative architectural modernist buildings, and their authors. The course will pay attention to the research
process regarding contemporary issues, merging from the necessities for creative design interventions in, and
extension to existing buildings.
The outcomes of this research will be analyzed, categorized, assessed and presented in a final paper.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

Stierli, M., Kulić, V., eds.(2018).Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980. New York: The

Museum of Modern Art.

Janković,N., Nikolić M., Drobnjak B. and Šuvaković M., eds.(2019). 100 Years of the Bauhaus – Contextualizations

and Re-Contextualizations of the Bauhaus in the Yugoslav Art Space. Belgrade: University of Belgrade– Faculty of Architecture and Goethe-Institut Belgrad.

Kulić, V., Parker, T. and Penick, M., eds.,(2014). Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar

Identities. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Kulić, V., Maroje Mrduljaš, M. and Wolfgang Thaler.W, Modernism In-Between: The Mediatory Architectures of

Socialist Yugoslavia (Berlin:Jovis,2012)

Kulić V., Stierli, M. and Thaler W., eds., (2018). Bogdanovic By Bogdanovic: Yugoslav Memorials Through The Eyes

Of Their Architect. New York:The Museum of Modern Art.