Public Art & Public Space – The Works of the Architect Bogdan Bogdanović

Department of Urban Planning, University of Belgrade

Number of students in course: 40

Assessment modalities: Active participation, presentation, final paper

Teaching language: Serbian

Study program: Master of Architecture

Teaching hours per week: 2

ECTS: 3

Bogdan Bogdanović was not only a leading architect of monuments in the former Yugoslavia but also an unconventional urbanologist, writer and philosopher. The most popular works of Bogdanović are his monuments. He designed 20 monuments in the former Yugoslavia. He wrote 18 books and more than 500 articles. He was the mayor of Belgrade between 1982 and 1986. As a political dissident, he was forced to leave Serbia in 1993. He lived in Vienna until his passing away in June 2010.

The course was structured into a theoretical part (lectures) and a practical part (the students finished their own presentations in the form of essays, drawings etc.).

Excursion to the following monuments in Serbia: Kruševac, Popina, Čačak, Leskovac, Vlasotince, Knjaževac and Sremska Mitrovica.

Students’ Exhibition in the Museum of the Yugoslav History ’25 maj’ Belgrade, 19-27 February 2011:

Lecturer: Dr. Vladimir Vuković

Supervision: Zoran Djukanović, assistant professor

Assistance: Aleksandar Bobić