Jovanka Bončić Katerinić is one of the representatives of Serbian architecture between two wars. She is mostly known for the fact that she was the first graduated women architect in Germany, which made headlines in daily newspapers in Serbia in 2016. However, in addition to this fact, Jovanka Bončić Katerinić…
Svetlana Kana Radević (1937-2000) is one of the most important Montenegrin architects. Her architecture marked the Modern movement in Montenegro and defined a standard in architecture that few can achieve. She is the youngest winner of the federal Borba award for architecture (1968), the only women, as well as the…
In the video below watch (in Serbian) the presentation of the project Women Belgrade Builders held at the New Technologies in Education 2016 conference. At the ENTER stage of the conference, the presentation under the title „Women Belgrade Builders – Project without a deadline“ was held by Katarina Aleksić, Milena Zindović…
Women builders are the topic of this year’s Women’s Diary, published by the Provincial Secretariat for Economy, Employment and Gender Equality, with the support from UN Women. This publication’s aim is to highlight the activities of women participating in the processes that are important to society, yet who often remain insufficiently…
As part of the Tenth edition of the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA), which took place from May 7th to May30th 2015, for the first time we organized a guided tour with the topic of women’s work in architecture. The walk, titled “Women in Architecture between 1900 and 1960” was…
Exactly two and a half years ago I visited Ivanka Raspopović in order to fond out more information on two topics I was at the time researching. The first topic was Ivanka’s professional resume, which I obtained in its version published in 1972 in the book Yugoslav Art of the 20th…
It is less known that the principal architect of Energoprojekt, one of the biggest construction companies in Yugoslavia, at the time of its development and rise, as was stated in the monograph published in honor of 60 years of its existence, was a woman. It is even less known that she…
Milica Krstić (maiden name Milica Čolak Antić) is one of important representatives of the architectural profession in Serbia between the two wars. As an author whose work has marked the architectural and urban image of Belgrade, and as a tireless advocate of her profession, Milica Krstić is considered one of…
The brave lady Jelisaveta Načić, chose for herself in many ways an unusual and extraordinary life path. Born into a rich and respectable tradesman’s family in Belgrade in 1878, she was successfully educated and after finished grammar school decided to continue her education at the University. This was a rarity…