Mass Housing Across the Soft Iron Curtain: Connecting the US and Yugoslavia

October 4-6, 2021

Monday, October 4, Cultural Center of Belgrade (Knez Mihailova 6)

10:00 Opening (Michael Allen, Vladana Putnik Prica, Danica Prodanović)

First block

10:15 Keynote speaker (to be confirmed)

10:45 Michael Allen, The Shadow of the High-Rise: Postwar Debates Over the Form of US Public Housing

11:15 Dragana Mecanov, Comparative Analysis of Housing Blocks in Brasilia and Belgrade

11:45 Disscusion

12:15 Pause (Coffee)

Second block

13:00 Jelica Jovanović, The Beginings of Mass Housing in Yugoslavia

13:30 Aleksandar Kadijević, Kneževac-Kijevo Housing Settlement in Belgrade

14:00 Vladana Putnik Prica, The role of Mass Hosuing in adressing the Dwelling Crisis in Yugoslavia

14:30 Disscussion

15:00 Pause (Lunch)

16:00 Workshop with Jovana Radujko (Brutalizam i renesansa), Architecture of the atmosphere / research through graphic parameters

Tuesday, October 5

10:00 Field tour New Belgrade (guides Jelica Jovanović, Vladana Putnik Prica)

14:00 Pause (Lunch)

15:00 Field tour Cerak Vinogradi (guide Ivana Vesković)

Wednesday, October 6

10:00 Field tour to Šabac (guide Marko Gavrilović)