Blagojević, Ljiljana

Ms. Blagojević teaches architectural and urban design and history and theory of modern and contemporary architecture at the University of Belgrade. She has lectured and published widely in Serbia as well as internationally. Ms. Blagojević recently completed a design and research project for the installation at the national pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2008. Her latest book Novi Beograd: ospereni modernizam (New Belgrade: Contested Modernism, Belgrade: Zavod za udzbenike, 2007) explores relations between socio-political conditions and related concepts of modernity in planning and design of a socialist modern city. She has also published Modernism in Serbia: The Elusive Margins of Belgrade Architecture, 1919-1941 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, in association with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2003) and Moderna Kuća u Beogradu, 1920-1941 (Modern House in Belgrade, 1920-1941, Belgrade: Zaduzbina Andrejevic, 2000) and was the guest editor of Stadt-Bauwelt 163: Therma Belgrad (Bauwelt, Berlin, 36/2004). Prior to her academic career, she lived in London and worked as an architect for Renton Howard Wood Levin Partnership and for Zaha Hadid.