Еxhibition "Miladin Prljević, an architect"

Guest exhibition of Historical Archives of Užice "Miladin Prljević, an architect"was posted as a result of cooperation between two institutions lasting several years. The exhibition represents review of architectural opus of the architect, one of the leaders of Serbian modern architecture in a period between two world wars, born in Užice

 

Ivan R. Marković, historian of art, the author of the exhibition, prepared mostly using his legacy kept in the Museum of Science and Technique represents the opus of the architect. Addition to the standing prepared in the Historical Archives of Belgrade by Đurđija Borovnjak and Snežana Lazić, archivists, conceptually corespondes with guest exhibition of the Historical Archives of Užice, so it was implemented using documentation of the Historical Archives of Belgrade and private archive documents being shown to the public for the first time. The exhibition is followed by projection of photo materials of projects, drafts of sketches and ideal solutions, so the mouvie "Fairman exercise" from 1943, kept in Yugoslav Film Archives, which represents fairman exercise performed on "Albania" Palace which represents the most significant work of his opus.

 

Successful architectural opus of Miladin Prljević (Užice 1899 – Belgrade 1973) is represented through the projects of public and bussines buildings, family villas, mostly multistorey, so through ideal solutions for competitions, engagement in development of building systems, use of isolation materials and energetic efficency. In only one decade, from 1930 until the start of World War II, Prljević projected more that 150 buildings, of which 68 was built, mostly in Belgrade, but also accross the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, later FNRY.

 

After World War II, Prljević was initiator and founder of the Institute for Architecture and Urbanism. Since 1946 until retirement he worked in Architectural Department of National Republic of Serbia.
Important buildings: "Albania" Palace, house of Siniša Zdravković, house of Mališa Stefanović and Hotel Palace in Užice.  

 

Opening ceremony photos