Lesson 6 in Traditional Serbian Rural Architecture: How does "new" rural architecture looks like?In the past 5 lessons of “Traditional Serbian Rural Architecture” I wrote about the two basic styles of rural houses “brvnare” and “bondruke”, about the different rural styles of the areasof Serbia, about the South Serbian Village, about the SerbianHomestead and about Serbian traditional interiors. (picture from "srpskekuce") Now I ask myself how to translate old rural architecture into new rural architecture. If I'm planning to renovate an old rural house in Serbia, how will the “new” or…
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This Overlooked Serbian Fairy-Tale Town Is For YouOn the Hungarian-Serbian border is one of the world’s best-kept secrets, an art-nouveau masterpiece called Subotica.
Serbian Architecture StyleThe most beautiful and best preserved monument of old Serbian architecture is the small church of the Kalenić monastery, Serbia, built in 1413 ad.
The Most Beautiful Architecture In SerbiaFrom Brutalism in Belgrade to Art Nouveau in Vojvodina via Serbo-Byzantine majesty in Karaljevo, this is the best of Serbian architecture.
Serbian modernism - a forgotten heritageLike many European countries, Serbia (then as part of Yugoslavia) was a centre of immense creativity and artistic endeavour during the 1920's and 1930's. Writers, artists and above all, architects gathered in Belgrade and other cities in the newly formed country and although much has been lost or damaged, a great deal of their legacy remains today. This post will cover a few of my favourite examples of Serbia's remaining modernist architecture. During the 1920's, Belgrade underwent rapid…
Traditional Orthodox Church ArchitectureLazarica Church (1375-1378), Krusevac, Serbia. – Church of the Holy First Martyr Stephen, better known as the Lazarica Church, is a Serbian Orthodox church in Krusevac, Serbia. It was built in 1375-1378 as an endowment of Prince Lazar of Serbia. Lazarica was built as a prototype of the Morava school of architecture, as a palace church associated with the Krusevac Fortress, the capital of Prince Lazar.