SAJ : Serbian architectural journal [Aleksandar Deroko]

Abstract

Aleksandar Deroko (1894-1988) is universally known in Serbia, but is nevertheless not often studied at either undergraduate or post-graduate level. While knowledge of Deroko and his work are essential for the historiography of the discipline, he is not often cited, and his work is not usually part of ongoing conversations about the current state of architectural history. Deroko’s work is so encyclopaedic that every art and architectural historian can no doubt find a link between his or her own work and something Deroko wrote. However, although he exemplifies twentieth-century development of the discipline in Serbia in a way that few other architectural historians do, both twentieth-century literature and more recent scholarship on Serbian architectural history show little interest in the principal concerns that drove Deroko’s work, whether theoretical or practical.