Mila Nikolić

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture 1960-2020, edited by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns

“Serbian Women Architects Reshaping Urban Landscape”

Nikolić, Mila

https://www.bloomsburyvisualarts.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781350059733&tocid=b-9781350059733-440

This overview of the history of urbanism in Serbia reveals the sustained and growing role of women architects in urban planning, design, and research from 1900 to 2015. Initially engaged in municipal projects, women assumed leading positions in post-war reconstruction, socialist modernist planning, and the expansion of Belgrade and other cities. By the 1960s and 1970s, they had become an indispensable creative force in major planning institutes and professional networks, and from the 1980s onwards, their presence in academia, research, and professional associations surpassed that of their male colleagues. Neoliberal transitions in the 1990s and 2000s redirected their activities toward non-governmental and supranational organisations, critical urban practices, as well as international consultancies and the academic diaspora. This long-term perspective emphasises both the institutionalisation and diversification of women’s contributions to urban development, offering new insights into gender, professional, cultural, and urban transformation in Serbia and the broader socialist and post-socialist context.

architects; modernist; neoliberal; Serbia; socialist; post-socialist; 20th century; urbanism; urban planning; women

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