Branislav Kojić

Branislav Đ. Kojić (1899-1987) was a Serbian architect, ruralist and painter.[1]

Biography

He was born on 5 June 1899 to a family of teachers in Smederevo, Serbia.

Kojić's early schooling was completed in Belgrade. In 1915, he found himself in France as a war refugee. He entered the French lycée in Poitiers, and later moved to the southern city of Nice, completing his studies there in 1917. He then moved north and enrolled in the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in Paris, where he was awarded a degree in architecture in 1921. He then obtained a position in the Ministry of Infrastructure in Belgrade and received his architectural license in 1926. Also, in 1926 he decided to design a unique family house for him and his wife who was also an architect and an interior decorator.[2][3] In 1928, with his wife Danica, he established a bureau of certified architects. In the same year, he founded the Group of Architects of the Modern Direction, which together with him also included Milan Zloković, Jan Dubovi, and Dušan Babić.[4]

Over the course of his long career, he built more than 100 buildings, some of which are now landmarks of Belgrade and Serbia, namely the Cvijeta Zuzorić Pavilion.[5]

He was one of the first Serbian modernist architects who was influenced by art deco.[6][7]

In 1950, he became a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, at the Department of Designing Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Five years later he became a Corresponding Member, and in 1963 a regular member of SANU (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1] He retired in 1965. Kojić died in 1987[8] and is buried in the Alley of the Greats at Novo Groblje in Belgrade.

References
  1. Drobnjaković, Marija; Vuksanović-Macura, Zlata; Spalević, Aleksandra; Todorić, Jovana (July 31, 2017). "Researching and planning the rural space: The work of Branislav Kojić" (PDF). Journal of the Geographical Institute "Jovan Cvijic". 67 (2): 195–211. doi:10.2298/IJGI1702195D.
  2. Daskalov, Roumen Dontchev; Mishkova, Diana; Marinov, Tchavdar; Vezenkov, Alexander (January 30, 2017). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Four: Concepts, Approaches, and (Self-)Representations. BRILL. ISBN 9789004337824 – via Google Books.
  3. Daskalov, Roumen Dontchev; Mishkova, Diana; Marinov, Tchavdar; Vezenkov, Alexander (2017-01-30). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume Four: Concepts, Approaches, and (Self-)Representations. BRILL. ISBN 9789004337824.
  4. Изложба „Бранислав Којић - сећање на архитекту“ Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Музеј науке и технике
  5. „Политика“, подлист „Моја кућа“ страница 3, петак, 13.1.2012.
  6. Bogdanović, Jelena; Robinson, Lilien Filipovitch; Marjanović, Igor (2014-09-01). On the Very Edge: Modernism and Modernity in the Arts and Architecture of Interwar Serbia (1918–1941). Leuven University Press. ISBN 9789058679932.
  7. Seražin, Helena; Garda, Emilia Maria; Franchini, Caterina (2018-06-13). Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018): Toward a New Perception and Reception. Založba ZRC. ISBN 9789610501060.
  8. "Branislav Kojić - Space in the Village, The Village in Space". Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Retrieved October 23, 2022.
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