Between real and constructed history: Key figures and schools, boundaries and main currents in recent Serbian architecture

Abstract

In the architectural historiography of Serbia, established methodological principles are rarely reexamined, even when evidence exists to show that their cognitive capacity has been exhausted. This is especially true for outdated ways of classifying, periodizing and evaluating opuses, which is why it is necessary to offer more scientifically expedient methods. In the heavily framed presentation of architectural history, the biggest problem is the overemphasis of the role of key figures, schools and trends (resulting either from inertia or out of conviction), on which our understandings of the boundaries of national architectural culture rely. And, therefore, it is precisely these established and widespread constructs that should first be dismantled.