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The preserved buildings play an important part in cultural and architectural heritage and have their contribution in the preservation of historical memory and in the improving of the modern quality of life, in the aesthetics and the attractiveness of a location. The elaboration of an integrated strategy with efficient administrative and financial motivations for the protection of preserved buildings must be a priority in the frame of a country's modern cultural management. The reuse and accessibility of preserved buildings and their grounds by the public have for purpose the improvement of the indices for employment and economic and tourism development and the rise of the standard of living especially for socio-economically degraded areas. Through the removal of regional inequalities and of local financial vigor sustainable development becomes an achievable goal. Greece and all other countries whishing to preserve better their rich cultural heritage could adopt the latest best practices and through the creation of an integrated policy of preservation, protection, assurance, exploitation and promoting of cultural value of their assets contribute furthermore to tourism development.
Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference “The Importance of Place”, 21.-24. October 2015. in Sarajevo (Editor: Maja Roso Popovac), CICOPBH, Sarajevo, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2015, ISSN 2232-965X, pp. 21-32. Serbia has a large number of diverse cultural monuments from different epochs and the ones belonging to Islamic architecture have a very significant place among them. Turkish bath - hammam was a typical architectural form of every town of the Ottoman Empire and Serbian territory was no exception. They belong to the group of public buildings strongly influenced by religion and culture itself. Their value is not only functional, but also aesthetic, and very often they have characteristics of monumental architecture. This paper gives an overview of all preserved hammam buildings in Serbia, with an assessment of their current state, and pointing to transformations in function and form during the time. They were all built between XV and XVIII century, and survived upon present days but with different state of preservation. Although some of them still serve their original purpose, a number of Turkish baths were brought to the ultimate degree of degradation by neglection or misuse. Their secure future depends on so many factors and keeping of their original use is one of the crucial factors for providing this.
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Roman Military Baths, 2021
This study examines the military baths in the provinces of Noricum, Pannonia, Moesia Inferior and Dacia. In the territory of the Roman Empire baths were built not only for public and private purposes, but military troops had their own baths as well. We can distinguish between two types of military baths: those which formed part of legionary fortresses and those which belonged to auxiliary forts. In the case of the legionary fortresses, the baths were inside the walls, while the baths at the auxiliary forts were placed outside. Some legionary and auxiliary forts had a separate bath for the officers, situated inside the walls in both cases. The baths were row-, ring- or blocked-type, and they were frequently rebuilt. This presentation will discuss and compare baths from all the above Roman provinces, including legionary baths, a bath which belonged to a cohors (infantry) fort, a bath which belonged to an ala (cavarly) fort, and an officers’ bath. From the baths presented here it can be determined that the Middle Danube provinces and Dacia were significant to Roman military bathing culture. It is possible that the baths could also be used by women, though few finds support this.
Spatium, 2021
Areas of disused military barracks are commonly exploited as a land resource that is attractive for redevelopment, within the urban city area. Their commercial potential is high on the list of attractiveness, primarily based on the value of the site?s disposition, size, and capacity for redevelopment in terms of rebuilding. Contemporary architectural practice is often directed towards urban redevelopment projects in military areas whose position and other characteristics are valued by investors as crucial commercial benefits. These sites may be places of tangible cultural heritage based on recognized architectural heritage and social memory. The paper presents a comparative study of the redevelopment of two former military barracks in Nis - Bubanjski Heroji and Filip Kljajic. These sites share the same disposition within the city but diverge in terms of their size, historical importance, and discourse of redevelopment. The comparison is presented from four perspectives: planning, bu...
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This paper aims to re-affirm early efforts in the preservation of architectural heritage after World War One by focusing on the book Serbian Orthodox Church, which presented selected works of Serbian religious art and architecture. Initiated in New York in 1917 by Serbian-American scholar Mihajlo Pupin, who gathered an international team of scholars and public figures to support the project, the book waspublished in London in 1918. This volume was the first such publication written in the English language and called international scholarly, political and public audiences for the due preservation of architectural heritage during and after the Great War. Pupin’s book started discussions about Serbian culture and architecture by conceptualizing cultural heritage as a common heritage of humanity. The importance of this early effort in the preservation of architectural heritage is attested to the fact that seven of the twenty-five medieval churches and monasteries from Pupin’s publication were later included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Moreover, the UNESCO’s criteria for including these sites on its list are correlated to the reasons why Pupin and his team singled out specific examples of architecture in the volume Serbian Orthodox Church.
Architecture and War in Post-Yugoslavia
2018
With the following paper, I will attempt to shed light on some of the complex questions surrounding the role of architecture in war by taking a closer look at two buildings; Sarajevo's National and University Library and the Generalstab, a military and defence headquarter complex. While being conceived by different architects, and diverging in function, style, and time of construction, what these buildings have in common is that they were specifically targeted and subsequently destroyed during the armed conflicts arising from the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.