Dragiša Brašovan

Dragiša Brašovan
Born (1887-05-25)May 25, 1887
Vršac, Kingdom of Serbia
Died October 6, 1965(1965-10-06) (aged 78)
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serbian
Occupation Architect

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

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 Peder Clason 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:

Jagodina:

  • Apartment blocks of Cable Factory Svetozarevo (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.

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
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