Dr. Ljiljana Blagojević, Architect

Associate Professor University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture

Architect and architectural historian and theorist engaged in research of the twentieth century architecture and urbanism, particularly regarding Belgrade/Serbia/Yugoslavia, and focusing on relations between socio-political conditions and related concepts of modernity. She teaches lecture courses on contemporary architecture and urbanism, graduate seminars on contemporary theory, M.Arch design studio, and Ph. D. courses in methodology of research in architecture, and history and theory of modernism in Serbia. Author of the books Novi Beograd: osporeni modernzam (New Belgrade: Contested Modernism, Belgrade, 2007), Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941 (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, in association with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2003), and Moderna kuća u Beogradu, 1920-1941 (Modern House in Belgrade, 1920-1941, Belgrade, 2000). Co-editor (with Felix Zwoch), of StadtBauwelt (Berlin) no. 36/2004, a thematic issue on contemporary Belgrade. Publishes and lectures in the national and international framework. Prior to academic career, from 1989-1997, she lived in London and worked as an architect with Renton Howard Wood Levin Partnership, and Zaha Hadid. Awarded a number of prizes at architecture competitions. Elected into RIBA membership (1992), ARB registered architect in the UK, Chartered Architect in Serbia. Salzburg Seminar Alumna.

Short bibliography on theme of the lecture:

StadtBauwelt (Berlin), 36 (2004)

ISSN 0005-6855

Ljiljana Blagojević, "Novi Beograd oder die Hauptstadt von Niemandsland", StadtBauwelt (Berlin), 36 (2004)

Ljiljana Blagojević, "New Belgrade: The Capital of No-City's-Land", ART-e-FACT, Issue 04 Glocalogue/ an online magazine for contemporary art & culture
ISSN 1845-5301

http://artefact.mi2.hr/_a04/lang_en/theory_blagojevic_en.htm

Ljiljana Blagojević, "Museum of our Modern Times"

http://www.kontakt-collection.net/exhibitions/belgrad/en (link to "Essay")

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