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Bogdan Bogdanovic
An exhibition at the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna pays homage to Bogdan Bogdanovic, one of the fathers of modern architecture in ex-Yugoslavia.
Politically active, first against Fascism and then against Serbian nationalism, and mayor of Belgrade in the 1980s, Bogdan Bogdanovic (born in 1922) is famed for having designed and built some of the most important monuments to Yugoslav history, such as the Dudik memorial park in Vukovar (1980) and the Jasenovac memorial built a few years ago in Croatia, for which he received the Premio Scarpa per il Giardino. However, the exhibition curated by Ivan Ristic at the Architektur Zentrum in Vienna, the city where Bodganovic has lived in exile since 1993, aims to present other sides of his esoteric character, highlighting his unconventional approach to town planning and his work as a writer and essayist (“I built to be able to write and wrote so that I could build,” he explains), mixed and overlaid with his work as an architect. E.S.
