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volume 6 _2014 S A J No _2 s e r b i a n a r c h i t e c t u r a l j o u r n a l ARCHITECTURE UTOPIA REALISM _2014_2_ Serbian Architectural Journal is published in Serbia by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, with The Centre for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy, and distributed b...

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volume 6 _2014 No _2

s e r b i a n

S A J

a r c h i t e c t u r a l

j o u r n a l

ARCHITECTURE UTOPIA REALISM _2014_2_

Serbian Architectural Journal is published in Serbia by the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, with The Centre for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy, and distributed by the same institutions / www.saj.rs All

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ISSN 1821-3952

cover photo A.U.R. Book of Abstracts / Exhibition Catalogue _2013 _photo by Ana Rakovic

s e r b i a n

volume 6 _2014

No _2

S A J

a r c h i t e c t u r a l

j o u r n a l

ARCHITECTURE UTOPIA REALISM _2014_2_

s e r b i a n

a r c h i t e c t u r a l

j o u r n a l

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Vladan Djokić EDITORIAL BOARD:

Ljiljana Blagojević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Petar Bojanić, The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, UK Vladan Djokić, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Haruhiko Fujita, Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka, Japan Hans Ibelings, A10 New European architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands Nada Lazarević Bajec, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Zoran Lazović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Vladimir Mako, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, Serbia Xavier Monteys, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, Spain Ákos Moravánszky, Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Rado Riha, Institute of Philosophy, Scientiic Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Dušan Teodorović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Transport and Trafic Engineering, Belgrade, Serbia

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University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, with The Centre for Ethics, Law and Applied Philosophy PROOFREADING:

Jasmina R. Ninkov CIRCULATION:

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volume 6 _2014

ISSN

No _2 _August 2014

1821-3952

C O N T E N T S

136-137

EDITORIAL Ljiljana Blagojević

138-145

ARCHITECTURE UTOPIA REALISM: THEMATIC FRAMEWORK Ljiljana Blagojević

146-165

THE UTOPIA OF REALITY. REALISMS IN ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY Silvia Malcovati

166-181

(SOC)REALISMS IN PRACTICE: RE-READING THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE IN THE 1930s Alessandro De Magistris

182-195

MANFREDO TAFURI AND THE CRITIQUE OF REALISM Luka Skansi

196-209

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, AYN RAND AND HYPER-CAPITALIST UTOPIA Tijana Vujošević

210-227

PLACE [SPACE] NON-PLACE Krunoslav Ivanišin

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Guest Editor: Ljiljana

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ARCHITECTURE UTOPIA REALISM: Editorial

The “Architecture Utopia Realism” thematic issue of Serbian Architecture Journal presents research articles which examine speciic histories and theories of realism in architectural discourses of the twentieth century. The context and thematic framework of the issue are introduced in the short research position paper by the guest editor Ljiljana Blagojević. In the sequel, ive full length research papers offer an international perspective on the subject. In his article focused on the practices of socialist realism in architecture and urban planning, Alessandro De Magistris argues for a nuanced re-consideration of historiography research and architectural practices, which aims to expose the intricate complexity of the Soviet experience. The contribution authored by Silvia Malcovati provides a well documented review of realism in architectural discourse in post-WW2 Italy and its relections in the wider European and American contexts, as well as contemporary resonances in the ield of philosophy. The critique of realism as proposed by Manfredo Tafuri, one of the key intellectual igures in the ield of architectural history and theory who entered into international debates on the subject in the 1980s, is closely scrutinized and historically contextualized in the article by Luka Skansi. Comparative reading of two literary narratives, one being an architectural treatise and the other a novel, in the article by Tijana Vujošević, aims to construct a critique of the anti-urban utopianism in the American context. Finally, questions of contemporary architectural practice concerning relations of project and context against the theoretical notions of the real and utopian, are addressed from the point of view of a practicing architect in the article by Krunoslav Ivanišin.

Acknowledgement: For their valuable assistance in the preparation of this issue of SAJ, I am greatly indebted to Aleksandar Kušić and Marija Milinković.

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