Конкурс за Санаторијум за туберкулозне на Шупљој Стени код Авале
The competition for a Sanatorium for the tuberculosis patients in Šuplja Stena near Avala

Summary/Abstract: Tuberculosis was the greatest health issue in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Yugoslavia. It was the main death cause, greatly shortening the life expectancy. At the beginning of the 1930s, several important competitions for hospitals and sanatoria were held in Yugoslavia, thus implying certain changes in the state’s health policy. Among them was the Yugoslav competition for the Sanatorium in Šuplja Stena south of mountain Avala near Belgrade, the country’s capital. It was held in 1931 and attracted many young modernist architects who were educated or started their careers in European centres such as Berlin and Paris. Among the awarded were Antun Ulrich, Franjo Behovec, Petar Gačić, Miša Manojlović, Isak Azriel, Alfred Melamed, Ante Grgić and Blaž Misita Katušić. The projects of Ernest Weissmann, Branislav Marinković and Miladin Prljević were also acquired. Even though many proposals were of high functional and architectural quality, the Sanatorium in Avala was never built. The reasons for this could be explained by the lack of systematic organisation and clear social and health policies on a state level. The infrastructural work being delayed and the lack of funding was one of the key reasons why the Kingdom of Yugoslavia never got an adequate sanatorium for tuberculosis patients near its capital.

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