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Serbian architect

Dragiša Brašovan

Born	(1887-05-25)May 25, 1887 Vršac, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	October 6, 1965(1965-10-06) (aged 78) Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia
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.

Works

Brašovan's personal items, Gallery of Matica Srpska

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.

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.).

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

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

Church of the Presentation of Mary, 1924-1927.

Serbian bank building, about 1920th
Sokolski dom, 1927.
Begej Vila, 1926.

Čortanovci:

Stanković Vila, 1930.

"Partizan" departement store, 1963

Gallery

Air Force Command in Zemun.
Banovina Palace in Novi Sad
Workers' Association in Novi Sad
Main Postal Office in Novi Sad
Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Pavilion, Barcelona 1929
Church in Orlovat
BIGZ building in Belgrade
Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
Metropol Palace Hotel Belgrade

See also

References

Blagojevic, Ljiljana (2003). Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941. MIT Press. Dust jacket. ISBN 978-0-262-02537-9.
20bogoroice.htm Church of the Presentation of the Virgin in Orlovat

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