1st Edition
Modern Architecture in the Balkans From Le Corbusier to Tito
Introduction
Foreword: Yugoslavia: Urbanization and the Question of Historic Time in a Semi-Peripheral Condition
Maroje Mrduljaš
1. The Balkans: Geography, history and cities
2. Le Corbusier’s journey to the east
3. Toward Modernism: Architecture and the city between the two world wars
4. Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia
5. Urbanism and architecture in the Balkans during the second post-war period
6. Dušan Grabrijan and Juraj Neidhardt: Architecture of Bosnia and the way [toward] modernity
Biography
Lorenzo Pignatti (1954) has been Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture - Università G. d'Annunzio – Pescara (Italy) until 2024, where he acted as Director of the Department of Architecture from 2020 to 2023 and Course Coordinator from 2015 to 2020.
He carries out studies and research on the Adriatic and Balkan region. He has promoted numerous international exchange initiatives, organized conferences and workshops in various countries, and published numerous publications and essays on these themes. He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo (Canada), where he was for many years the director of the Rome Programme.
He has always been an investigator of various phenomena related to the development of modernity and has reinterpreted them both in theoretical research and in design. He was a founding partner of the Ottone Pignatti Architetti (Rome) which concentrated its work on urban regeneration and the design of public spaces.
