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Similar Stylistic Characteristics of Two Residential Buildings in Belgrade: Architects Dragiša Brašovan and Milan Zloković

Summary/Abstract: In the 1920s, architects Brašovan Dragiša and Milan Zloković made projects for two residential buildings with similar stylistic characteristics that are also located in the close proximity of the Slavija square. The first residential building, funded by Josif Šojat, is located in No.33 Kralja Milutina Street and second one, Škarka's villa, is located in No.13 Deligradska Street. Both buildings were built in an academic style but also contained elements of Eclecticism. They combine elements of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque architecture with elements of romanticized Rundbogenstil, e.g. the arc that dominates the facades. Projects also include elements that foreshadow the arrival of modernism in the architecture of Belgrade, as wall areas that are flat and wide with rectangular windows. The main reason why they are different from the other eclectic buildings in postwar Belgrade is the Mediterranean spirit. Influences of Zloković’s ideas came from architecture of Trieste and Brašovan’s from architecture of Budapest, cities where these architects grew up and went to school. These similarities in two projects portray a way of dealing with an identity crisis that covered territories of Austro-Hungarian Empire and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also the architects’ personal way of dealing with their own personal identity crisis.

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