Dragiša Brašovan

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Dragiša Brašovan
Born(1887-05-25)May 25, 1887
Vršac, Kingdom of Serbia
DiedOctober 6, 1965(1965-10-06) (aged 78)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
OccupationArchitect

Dragiša Brašovan (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгиша Брашован) (May 25, 1887 – October 6, 1965) was a Serbian modernist architect, one of the leading architects of the early 20th century in Yugoslavia.[1]

Works[]

Brašovan's personal items, Gallery of Matica Srpska

Barcelona

  • Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Was with the Barcelona Pavilion of Mies van der Rohe and the Swedish Pavilion of the only examples of avant-garde architecture. The building, demolished after the exposition, had the shape of an irregular star and the façade had no ornamental elements as the other historicist pavilions.

Belgrade:

  • The Museum of Nikola Tesla building, 1932.
  • The State Printing building (later building), 1934-1941.
  • Command of the Air Force Zemun, 1939.
  • Hotel Metropol, 1953.
  • Several buildings built in the 1930s (Francuska no. 5, Liberation Blvd. No.2, Boulevard of Despot Stefan no. 8, etc.).

Jagodina:

  • Apartment blocks of (FX), built in the late 1950s

Novi Sad:

  • Workers' Association, 1931.
  • Banovina building, (now the Executive Council of Vojvodina), 1939.
  • Main Post Office, 1961.

Orlovat:

  • Church of the Presentation of Mary, 1924-1927.[2]

Zrenjanin:

  • Serbian bank building, about 1920th
  • Sokolski dom, 1927.

Gallery[]

  • Air Force Command in Zemun.

  • Banovina Palace in Novi Sad.

  • Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Pavilion, Barcelona 1929.

  • Church in Orlovat.

  • BIGZ building.

  • Nikola Tesla Museum.

  • Hotel Metropol in Belgrade.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Blagojevic, Ljiljana (2003). Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941. MIT Press. Dust jacket. ISBN 978-0-262-02537-9.
  2. ^ 20bogoroice.htm Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in Orlovat[permanent dead link]

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