Uglješa Bogunović
Угљеша Богуновић
Born(1922-10-22)October 22, 1922
Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)[1]
DiedApril 27, 1994(1994-04-27) (aged 71)
Belgrade, Serbia
Notable work 

Uglješa Bogunović (1922-1994) was a Serbian architect, among Belgrade's and the country's most prominent.[2]

Bogunović was born on 1922 in Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).[1]

One of his most famous works, in collaboration with architects Slobodan Janjić and Milan Kostić, is the Mount Avala TV Tower that was destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.[3] His other works include the reconstruction of Skadarlija Street in the 1960s[4][5] and the Yugoslav Pavilion at the World Trade Fair in San Francisco in 1964.[6]

Begunović died in 1994[7] in Belgrade.

Begunović's work was included in the show Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 at New York's MoMA in 2016.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 Jugoslovenska umetnost XX veka: Srpska arhitektura, 1900-1970 [Yugoslav Art of the 20th Century: Serbian Architecture, 1900-1970] (in Bosnian). Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. 1972. p. 130. OCLC 46321451.
  2. ↑ "Serbia in the World". 2000.
  3. ↑ Krivokapić, Boris (2019). "The Nato Bombing Of Yugoslavia (1999) 20 Years Later – The Problems Of Legality, Legitimacy And Consequences". In Vuković, Nebojša (ed.). David Vs. Goliath: NATO War Against Yugoslavia and Its Implications. Institute of International Politics and Economics. p. 466. ISBN 978-86-7067-261-1.
  4. ↑ Beard, Danijela Š.; Rasmussen, Ljerka V. (June 2020). Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. ISBN 9781315452319.
  5. ↑ Janićijević, Jovan (1998). The Cultural Treasury of Serbia. IDEA. ISBN 978-86-7547-039-7.
  6. ↑ Joint Translation Service (8 October 1964). "Summary of the Yugoslav Press".
  7. ↑ "Uglješa Bogunović | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  8. ↑ "Valentin Jeck, Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić, Milan Krstić. Avala TV Tower, Mount Avala, Belgrade, Serbia (Exterior view, 2016). 2016 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  9. ↑ James, Brian (2019). "Exhibition Review: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA". Design and Culture. 11: 142–144. doi:10.1080/17547075.2019.1558969. S2CID 197757239.
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