A new map-guide chronicles the city’s twentieth-century landmarks

Photos
Relja Ivanic

A newly-published map-guide to the modernist architecture of Belgrade features 50 of the city’s most important twentieth-century buildings.

Urban Planning Institute by Branislav Jovin, 1970

Compiled by architect Ljubica Slavković and photographer Relja Ivanić, the bilingual, two-sided map is published by Blue Crow media, which has previously released similar guides to Art Deco London, Brutalist Paris and Constructivist Moscow among other architectural destinations.

Featured buildings include the Palace of Serbia, the Museum of Aviation by Ivan Štraus, the Genex Tower by Mihajlo Mitrović and the Urban Planning Institute by Branislav Jovin.

“This map is an invitation to explore and recognise some of the most prominent achievements of Tito’s Yugoslavia and Modernist architecture in existence today”, says Ljubica Slavković. “Although Belgrade is home to an unsurpassed density of original Modernist and Brutalist architecture and design, the lack of public support and maintenance means that many of these structures are now in danger. We want to draw the public’s attention to these achievements before it is too late.”

‘Modernist Belgrade Map’ (‘Modernistička mapa Beograda’) opens to 420mm by 600mm and is available from the publisher’s website, priced £8/€9/1100 RSD.