Arhitektura Urbanizam was a Belgrade-based professional journal covering architecture, urban planning, applied art and industrial design, published continuously from 1960 to 1987 by successive consortia of Yugoslav architects' and urban planners' associations. Appearing roughly six times a year in its early decade, the journal documented the ambitious postwar building programme of socialist Yugoslavia, including new towns, housing blocks, public institutions and competition entries, through the lens of a profession working at the scale of an entire federal state.
The journal was founded in 1960 under editor-in-chief Oliver Minić, who steered it through its first, most prolific decade and a half, when it was published on behalf of the Savez arhitekata Jugoslavije (Union of Yugoslav Architects) and the Urbanistički savez Jugoslavije (Union of Yugoslav Urban Planners).
From issue 70/72 (1974), editorship passed to Zoran B. Petrović, coinciding with a shift in publishing structure: the journal became the organ of a Serbia-based consortium: the Savez društava arhitekata Srbije, Urbanistički savez Srbije, and the association of applied artists and designers of Serbia. Ranko Radović took over from issue 88/89 (1982), and Vladimir Macura from issue 98 (1987).
The scans reproduced here were sourced from the digital library of Docomomo Serbia, the Serbian chapter of the international organisation for the documentation and conservation of Modern Movement heritage.
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699 buildings and projects have been extracted from the issues; a selection is listed here, each opening the issue at its page. See all 699 projects in the project directory.
Editorship of the journal passed through four editors-in-chief across its 27-year run, tracking a shift from federal Yugoslav to Serbia-based publishing. Publisher information for the earliest issues (01–24, 1960–1963) is still being compiled.
Founding editor-in-chief, leading the journal through its first decade and a half under the federal Yugoslav architects' and urban planners' unions.
Took over from issue 70/72 (1974), as the journal transitioned to a Serbia-based publishing consortium.
Directed the journal from issue 88/89 (1982) onward.
Took over from issue 98 (1987), the final numbered issue included in this collection.
Federal-level Yugoslav architects' and urban planners' unions, publishers from issue 25 (1964) through the mid-1970s.
Serbia-based consortium (the Union of Serbian Architects' Societies, the Urban Planners' Union of Serbia, and the association of applied artists and designers of Serbia) took over publication from issue 70/72.
Selected scholarship on the journal, and the institutional sources from which the database draws its scans and transcripts.
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