Uglješa Bogunović
Serbian architect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uglješa Bogunović (1922-1994) was a Serbian architect, among Belgrade's and the country's most prominent.[2]
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Uglješa Bogunović | |
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Угљеша Богуновић | |
Born | (1922-10-22)October 22, 1922[citation needed] |
Died | April 27, 1994(1994-04-27) (aged 71)[citation needed] |
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Bogunović was born on 1922 in Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).[1]
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.[3] His other works include the reconstruction of Skadarlija Street in the 1960s[4][5] and the Yugoslav Pavilion at the World Trade Fair in San Francisco in 1964.[6]
Begunović died in 1994[7] in Belgrade.[citation needed]
Begunović's work was included in the show Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 at New York's MoMA in 2016.[8][9]