Attempting to highlight the specificity of the architect Milan Lojanica?s
design approach, clearly distinct in his first professional decennary
1962-1972, the focus of this paper is on his firstly designed and developed,
and afterwards awarded architectural masterpiece, which he realized with his
associates, architects Cagic and Jovanovic - i.e. the urban suprastructure of
Julino brdo/Jula?s hill (1967-1970). As fifty years has passed from its first
drawings, and the project documentation consists of exceptionally rare
fragments only, one of the main goals of the research was the attempt to
reconstruct the complete creative process - including its particular modality
of construction/materialization. Although in its results merely a brief
recapitulation of Lojanica?s innovative beginnings, the discourse still may
provide a source-material for the genre of textbooks - from student to
technical practice - regarding the rarest and almost forgotten discipline of
experimental urban (mass)housing, with artistic/spiritual/serene touch of a
refined prefabricated system. Nonetheless, the opus of the eminent author,
the respected creative endeavor of Milan Lojanica, future professor of
architecture and the SASA academic, arises from its earliest stages and then
permanently confirms itself as an entirety in its continuity. Therefore, the
small-scale Julino brdo/Jula?s hill settlement case study is
reanalyzed/rethought within Lojanica?s antecedent thematic preoccupations,
and additionally within the most challenging subsequent one - the Goc?aw
project (1972), Poland (Polska), throughout its emerging, unrivaled,
innovatively envisioned - town/city of hundred-thousand-inhabitants.
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