The exhibition "Forever: One hundred years since the birth of the architect Bogdan Bogdanović" will be opened on Wednesday, September 21 in the Atrium Gallery in the City of Belgrade Library.
The exhibition was organized by the Center for Architectural Heritage "VAM" and the Libraries of the City of Belgrade.
"Bogdan Bogdanović was an architect, but there is not a single building he designed that we can admire." He taught urban planning, but he didn't build any neighborhoods that we could walk through. Maybe that's why it's the title of one of his books Haunted builder. He was mayor, but he couldn't sign a check, or even use credit cards. He loved life, cheerful, witty, we often shook with laughter in his company, but he realized himself with tombstones in the face of death. Bogdan Bogdanović was a contradiction on two legs," Ivan Ivanji wrote in the text "The Green Box Poet and the Haunted Builder"
"For him, the city is not first of all an architectural concept, but a cultural, moral, myth-laden concept. War starts when the village starts to destroy the city. Bogdan's destiny was to build for the dead, to draw and write for the living. He did not realize his concepts with bricks, concrete, steel, glass, marble, wood, but with paper - sketches and books, air - words. But he loved the stone. He talked to the stones before building them into something that didn't exist before," Milan Milošević wrote about Bogdan Bogdanović in the text "The builder is horrified by the works of the city destroyer".
And further: "He built more than twenty monuments and memorial centers." Some were destroyed during the unfortunate wars in our - his - regions. The most famous one remained whole, even though it was the most sensitive, the most vulnerable, the strangely thin stem raised high flower that casts its shadow on the sad land where the Jasenovac concentration camp stood.
Bogdan Bogdanović was an urban planner, philosopher, humanist, and the last memory of him is the memory of a city builder horrified by the actions of city destroyers and the ignorance of new ideologues. It was a sad 1992...
I can testify that he belonged to those few people in our midst who, a few years before, not only sensed the impending disaster, but also spoke impressively about it. At the time of the so-called events of the people and differentiation in 1987 and 1988, one of his open letters, which would later turn into the book "Dead ropes - mental traps of Stalinism", warned against shamanic rhetoric that heralds a dangerous pyromaniac plague. The voice of Bogdan Bogdanović seems to have been the most impressive among the voices of the pacifists of that time".
Bogdan Bogdanović was born in 1922 in Belgrade and died in 2010 in Vienna. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in 1950, and from 1970 to 1972 he was the dean of that faculty. He is the winner of several awards, including the October Award of the City of Belgrade for the Monument in Jasenovac in 1966. Bogdanović was the mayor of Belgrade from 1982 to 1986. In the early 90s, he emigrated to Vienna.
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