RESOLVING THE HOUSING CRISIS IN THE WORK OF ARCHITECT BRANISLAV MARINKOVIĆ AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Abstract

Resolving the housing crisis after the end of the Second World War was an important task when, on that occasion, eminent experts, employed by state construction companies and design bureaus, were hired. Many of them were members of the interwar generation of architects, adapted to the newly emerging social and cultural upheaval. The authorities recognized the talent of the architect Branislav Marinković, a respectable interwar builder, which enabled him to realize buildings primarily intended for residential architecture. He designed pavilion housing groups of socialist realist aesthetics, and later apartment buildings and solitaires harmonized with the currents of the author’s modern architecture, retaining his special authorial stamp. Hence, this work represents a pioneering research of the post-war work of the architect Marinković, which has not been the subject of more thorough historiographical research so far.