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Predrag V. Milo{evi}

THE ARCHITECTURE OF FAMILY HOUSES AND VILLAS
IN SARAJEVO (1918–1941)

The Architectural production of architects in the Kingdom of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenians observed as an example of Sarajevo’s moderna, how it is
through separated ideas or creations could be estimated fittingly continued traditi-
ons from which originated. At one side it is planned on a domestic construction it’s
ground and experience, and at the other side it is depending on roots and achieve-
ments of leading Middle European, European and world architectural centres and
their schools. It’s specifics and value precisely on that base ordered Sarajevo a spe-
cial place between all cities in Yugoslavia.
All Sarajevo’s architects which created in that town till 1941 in period of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, even earlier, worked on a solution of architectonic and art
problems, but in a frame of many social, cultural and economic questions tracaing
for a new possibilities. Their work on a construction and regulation of town con-
nected public interests for architectonic historical monuments and not only for a
modern in architecture. A movement for a modern space of buildings and city on
that way is placed on the city wide base and gets unique character.
A battle against an earlier official architecture was not only of a theoretical
filed than with a participation of the architects on competitions and exhibitions and
in conversations about questions of a modern view and aestehetic of Sarajevo’s pu-
blic and the other spaces. Everywhere and everyplace architects of the modern ap-
proach proved that every building purpose have to serve at the first line to it’s own
purpose and that architecture has to depend clearly from materials and work tec-
hnics. They were not satisified with symbolicthan realized expressions of some
functiones to which they subordinated their imagination and no modelled forms,
facades and all space, for the best exxamples obligatory simple in conception, with
an energetic emphasized construction, big surfaces on facades with big and long
glassyrocks, with a flat roof without corronets and window-ornaments. They used
a colour as a new factor to amplified a plastic expression of the surface at facades
and it’s individual parts. Directly in such a manner Sarajevo’s architecture created
it’s characteristic shapes in many ways different from the others in the country and
abroad and produced it’s full contribution to the period which was characterized by
the numerous progressive movements in the architecture. That was possible before
all acknowledged to good intensions and a tidy organization of a state in which cre-
ated architects of the modern architectural culture.