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Serbian architect
Uglješa Bogunović
Угљеша Богуновић
Born(1922-10-22)October 22, 1922
Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
DiedApril 27, 1994(1994-04-27) (aged 71)
Belgrade, Serbia
Notable work 

Uglješa Bogunović (1922-1994) was a Serbian architect, among Belgrade's and the country's most prominent.

Bogunović was born on 1922 in Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).

One of his most famous works, in collaboration with architects Slobodan Janjić and Milan Kostić, is the Mount Avala TV Tower that was destroyed in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His other works include the reconstruction of Skadarlija Street in the 1960s and the Yugoslav Pavilion at the World Trade Fair in San Francisco in 1964.

Begunović died in 1994 in Belgrade.

Begunović's work was included in the show Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 at New York's MoMA in 2016.

References

  1. ^ Jugoslovenska umetnost XX veka: Srpska arhitektura, 1900-1970 [Yugoslav Art of the 20th Century: Serbian Architecture, 1900-1970] (in Bosnian). Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. 1972. p. 130. OCLC 46321451.
  2. "Serbia in the World". 2000.
  3. Krivokapić, Boris (2019). "The Nato Bombing Of Yugoslavia (1999) 20 Years Later – The Problems Of Legality, Legitimacy And Consequences". In Vuković, Nebojša (ed.). David Vs. Goliath: NATO War Against Yugoslavia and Its Implications. Institute of International Politics and Economics. p. 466. ISBN 978-86-7067-261-1.
  4. Beard, Danijela Š.; Rasmussen, Ljerka V. (June 2020). Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. ISBN 9781315452319.
  5. Janićijević, Jovan (1998). The Cultural Treasury of Serbia. IDEA. ISBN 978-86-7547-039-7.
  6. Joint Translation Service (8 October 1964). "Summary of the Yugoslav Press".
  7. "Uglješa Bogunović | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  8. "Valentin Jeck, Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić, Milan Krstić. Avala TV Tower, Mount Avala, Belgrade, Serbia (Exterior view, 2016). 2016 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2021-07-13.
  9. James, Brian (2019). "Exhibition Review: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA". Design and Culture. 11: 142–144. doi:10.1080/17547075.2019.1558969. S2CID 197757239.
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