TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ignjatović, Aleksandar
AU  - Stojiljković, Danica Milan
PY  - 2024
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1998
AB  - This article examines relationships between architecture and ideology in socialist
Yugoslavia by exploring the cultural interpretation and appropriation of the Balkan
house in achieving modern, specifically Yugoslav architectural expression. Through the
contextualization of the period’s different narratives on the Ottoman vernacular and
various architectural designs related to it, the aim is to demonstrate how Yugoslav architects relied on Marxism to appropriate vernacular architecture into the modernist discourses. Dialectical materialism was used as a key for the interpretation of the
opposition between what was seen as the negative and positive elements of the
Balkan house, which challenged banal polarization between the traditional and modern
and led to a more nuanced understanding of backwardness and progress in vernacular
architecture. The idea of architectural metamorphoses of vernacular to modern
forms was justified by evolution and revolution, the basic concepts of the Marxist understanding of processes in society and culture. The Yugoslav interest in the Balkan house
represented a living, perceivable example of how the relationships between tradition and
modernity, the past and the present, as well as men and their environment, became
incorporated into new architecture of ‘socialism with a humane face’, which stood at
the heart of Yugoslav social and political experiment.
PB  - SAGE Publications
T2  - Journal of Contemporary History
T1  - Practicing Dialectical Materialism: The Balkan House and Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia
VL  - 59
IS  - 1
SP  - 161
EP  - 184
DO  - 10.1177/00220094231209223
ER  - 

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author = "Ignjatović, Aleksandar and Stojiljković, Danica Milan",
year = "2024",
abstract = "This article examines relationships between architecture and ideology in socialist
Yugoslavia by exploring the cultural interpretation and appropriation of the Balkan
house in achieving modern, specifically Yugoslav architectural expression. Through the
contextualization of the period’s different narratives on the Ottoman vernacular and
various architectural designs related to it, the aim is to demonstrate how Yugoslav architects relied on Marxism to appropriate vernacular architecture into the modernist discourses. Dialectical materialism was used as a key for the interpretation of the
opposition between what was seen as the negative and positive elements of the
Balkan house, which challenged banal polarization between the traditional and modern
and led to a more nuanced understanding of backwardness and progress in vernacular
architecture. The idea of architectural metamorphoses of vernacular to modern
forms was justified by evolution and revolution, the basic concepts of the Marxist understanding of processes in society and culture. The Yugoslav interest in the Balkan house
represented a living, perceivable example of how the relationships between tradition and
modernity, the past and the present, as well as men and their environment, became
incorporated into new architecture of ‘socialism with a humane face’, which stood at
the heart of Yugoslav social and political experiment.",
publisher = "SAGE Publications",
journal = "Journal of Contemporary History",
title = "Practicing Dialectical Materialism: The Balkan House and Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia",
volume = "59",
number = "1",
pages = "161-184",
doi = "10.1177/00220094231209223"
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Ignjatović, A.,& Stojiljković, D. M.. (2024). Practicing Dialectical Materialism: The Balkan House and Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia. in Journal of Contemporary History
SAGE Publications., 59(1), 161-184.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231209223

Ignjatović A, Stojiljković DM. Practicing Dialectical Materialism: The Balkan House and Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia. in Journal of Contemporary History. 2024;59(1):161-184.
doi:10.1177/00220094231209223 .

Ignjatović, Aleksandar, Stojiljković, Danica Milan, "Practicing Dialectical Materialism: The Balkan House and Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia" in Journal of Contemporary History, 59, no. 1 (2024):161-184,
https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231209223 . .

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ignjatović, Aleksandar
AU  - Stojiljković, Danica Milan
PY  - 2019
UR  - https://raf.arh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/896
AB  - The breakup between socialist Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1948 paved the way for radical socio-political reforms as well as a new cultural model that would justify a newly invented Yugoslav socialist Sonderweg. In this context, Structuralism became a key vehicle for implementing the social and cultural values of the newly invented socialist self-management ideology. Structuralism helped shape the new culture via different fields and cultural approaches. This paper examines the origins and importance of Structuralism in architecture in the ideological and political context of Yugoslav socialism. As an avant-garde movement, Structuralism consequentially contributed to the critique of the then predominant functionalist paradigm of high modernism, resulting in a new direction that emphasised aestheticisation, a formal and semiotic approach, and the establishment of universal and archetypal values ostensibly derived from the exploration of vernacular architecture in Yugoslavia. Starting from the premise that all these values had a major impact on the construction of the mythology of authentic and autochthonous socialism, this paper shows how architectural Structuralism played a key role in shaping social and political authenticity and cultural mediation.
PB  - London: Routledge
PB  - London: Taylor & Francis
T2  - The Journal of Architecture
T1  - Towards an authentic path: Structuralism and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia
VL  - 24
IS  - 6
SP  - 853
EP  - 876
DO  - 10.1080/13602365.2019.1684973
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Ignjatović, Aleksandar and Stojiljković, Danica Milan",
year = "2019",
abstract = "The breakup between socialist Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in 1948 paved the way for radical socio-political reforms as well as a new cultural model that would justify a newly invented Yugoslav socialist Sonderweg. In this context, Structuralism became a key vehicle for implementing the social and cultural values of the newly invented socialist self-management ideology. Structuralism helped shape the new culture via different fields and cultural approaches. This paper examines the origins and importance of Structuralism in architecture in the ideological and political context of Yugoslav socialism. As an avant-garde movement, Structuralism consequentially contributed to the critique of the then predominant functionalist paradigm of high modernism, resulting in a new direction that emphasised aestheticisation, a formal and semiotic approach, and the establishment of universal and archetypal values ostensibly derived from the exploration of vernacular architecture in Yugoslavia. Starting from the premise that all these values had a major impact on the construction of the mythology of authentic and autochthonous socialism, this paper shows how architectural Structuralism played a key role in shaping social and political authenticity and cultural mediation.",
publisher = "London: Routledge, London: Taylor & Francis",
journal = "The Journal of Architecture",
title = "Towards an authentic path: Structuralism and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia",
volume = "24",
number = "6",
pages = "853-876",
doi = "10.1080/13602365.2019.1684973"
}

Ignjatović, A.,& Stojiljković, D. M.. (2019). Towards an authentic path: Structuralism and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia. in The Journal of Architecture
London: Routledge., 24(6), 853-876.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2019.1684973

Ignjatović A, Stojiljković DM. Towards an authentic path: Structuralism and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia. in The Journal of Architecture. 2019;24(6):853-876.
doi:10.1080/13602365.2019.1684973 .

Ignjatović, Aleksandar, Stojiljković, Danica Milan, "Towards an authentic path: Structuralism and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia" in The Journal of Architecture, 24, no. 6 (2019):853-876,
https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2019.1684973 . .