Dragiša Brašovan

Biography: 

He was a Serbian modernist architect, one of the leading architects of the early 20th century in Yugoslavia.

Zrenjanin: Serbian bank building, about 1920th, Sokolski dom, 1927.

Orlovat: Church of the Presentation of Mary, 1924-1927.

Novi Sad: Workers' Association, 1931. Banovina building, (now the Executive Council of Vojvodina), 1939. Main Post Office, 1961.

Belgrade: The Museum of Nikola Tesla building, 1932. The State Printing building (later BIGZ building), 1934-1941. Command of the Air Force Zemun, 1939. Hotel Metropol, 1953. Several buildings built in the 1930s (Francuska no. 5, Liberation Blvd. No.2, Boulevard of Despot Stefan no. 8, etc.).

Jagodina: Apartment blocks of Cable Factory Svetozarevo (FX), built in the late 1950s

Barselona: 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.

 

 

 

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