Heritage in Danger: Built Work of Juraj Neidhardt

Mejrema Zatrić; Nevena Novaković

doi:10.52200/docomomo.72.13

Heritage in Danger

Built Work of Juraj Neidhardt

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Mejrema Zatrić International University of Sarajevo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0424-1704
Nevena Novaković University of Banja Luka https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8878-6674

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Abstract

Almost the entirety of Juraj Neidhardt’s built work was created in the decades of his late career. Although several emblematic projects—notably the ‘Sextuplet’ collective workers’ housing type—were designed before World War II, Neidhardt’s work as modernist heritage is historically firmly situated in the socialist Yugoslav era. The proper evaluation, listing, and conservation of modern architectural heritage is a relatively new subfield of heritage conservation in many countries around the world. In the majority of ex-Yugoslav states, the institutionalization of these endeavors has been complicated by the political and historical controversy surrounding the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the opposing interpretations of the social, cultural, and historical values of modernist Yugoslav heritage.

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Zatrić, M., & Novaković, N. (2024). Heritage in Danger: Built Work of Juraj Neidhardt. Docomomo Journal, (72), 100–102. https://doi.org/10.52200/docomomo.72.13

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Published

2024-12-07

Issue

No. 72 (2024): The Way towards Regional Modernities

Section

Heritage in danger

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Author Biographies

Mejrema Zatrić, International University of Sarajevo

is an architect, architectural historian, and assistant professor at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research focuses on the relations between architecture and the environment, Yugoslav modern architecture and genealogies of modernist regionalism in the Western Balkans and beyond. She holds a doctoral degree from ETH Zurich and a Master of Architecture and Urban Culture from the Metropolis program of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. She has been a curatorial advisory board member for the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, and holds a certificate of the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles for the conservation of modern architecture. She is Chair of Docomomo Bosnia-Herzegovina and co-founder of the Archive of Modern Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nevena Novaković, University of Banja Luka

is an assistant professor at the University of Banja Luka. She earned her doctoral degree from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, in 2014. Her research focuses on urban design history and theory, with a particular emphasis on collective housing and the theory of urban form. She teaches urban design and urban theory at both the bachelor’s and master’s levels. She is the editor of the scientific journal AGG+ and a founding member of Docomomo Bosnia and Herzegovina.