The 'Professors’ Colony' residential buildings SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s Milanka Matić editor Nataša Mišković editor Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:siba.4003 Borba fotodokumentacija, Belgrade Vreme Borba0003 Photoarchive Borba Architecture Structures Public Structures Structures Community Structure Community Teachers Education Photographic plate 1925-1930 Svetozar Grdijan Grdijan, Svetozar View of three residential buildings decorated with flags along Stojan Novaković Street, on the corner of Jaša Prodanović street. The corner building features a commemorative plaque framed with a floral decoration next to one of the first-floor windows. Directly above, two women are leaning out of a second-floor window. Two girls are playing on the pavement next to the house entrance, one of them is sitting on a windowsill. In the lower right corner, a young man is leaning on a fence and looking towards the corner building. The so-called 'Professors’ Colony' (Profesorska kolonija) was the first group of residential buildings commissioned by the Association of University Professors in Belgrade. The site is bordered by Jovan Cvijić Street, Despot Stefan Boulevard, Mitropolit Petar and Zdravko Čelar streets. It was designed and built by the architect Svetozar Jovanović (1892-1971), professor at the Technical Faculty and one of the Colony’s first inhabitants, on the initiative of Vladimir K. Petković, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, between 1926 and 1929. Many prominent Belgrade University professors also lived there, such as Milutin Milanković, Vladimir Ćorović, Milan Budimir and others. Not specified Not specified 90 130 Serbia Yugoslavia Belgrade Palilula Maksimović, Branko (1983): Ideje i stvarnost urbanizma Beograda 1830-1941. Beograd: Zavod za zaštitu kulture grada Beograda.
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