To date, the Serbian architecture of the nineteen-fifties has not yet been
more comprehensively studied albeit the fact that there are sufficient
sources, data, literature, and structures built at that time. The reason for
the lack of interest in architecture of that period may be found in the
relationship between the non-understanding and insufficient valuation of
architectural results of the modern architecture of the time, but also in the
general opinion that the immediate postwar years were the time of a poor
social housing development, which is also characterized by the lack of
distinct architectural values. Furthermore, there has been an obvious
unreadiness to analyze in more detail and in time distance the subject of the
sociorealistic construction, which was also partially present in this period.
After a short period of the so-called Socio-Realism 1945-1950, characterized
by reconstruction of the war devastated country with extensive participation
of youth brigades, the housing construction in particular got a big boost,
considering the changes in population structure, as well as the fact that a
significant portion of population moved from rural areas to towns. The
subject decade of the newly established socialist society was, in every
respect, marked with upward path of economic, political and social
development, which was an important base for overall architectural and
cultural construction. This was the time when Serbian architects of different
generations created a great number of works, which were diverse in they
contents. The architects of older generation often created their most
important works, while young architects, looking into future, but also into
own architectural heritage and accomplishments, achieved their first
significant results, thus generating autochthonous architectural trend and
expression which would soon be recognized as the Belgrade School of
Architecture. In the conditions in which the Serbian architecture developed,
it actually meant fitting within the world development trends along with
preservation of own and regional specificities.