Aleksandar Đokić

House of Serbo-Norwegian Friendship designed by Aleksandar Đokić

Aleksandar Đokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ђокић; 28 December 1936–22 May 2002) was a Serbian architect who gained fame for his original designs created in the Brutalist and postmodernist styles.^[1] He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.

A native of the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Aleksandar Đokić has designed numerous structures and edifices considered to be straddling the boundary between post-Modern and neo-Romantic architecture. His most-publicized creation, the Center of Norwegian-Yugoslav Friendship in the Rudnik-Vujan mountain town of Gornji Milanovac, has been compared to the works of his younger Japanese contemporary, Makoto Sei Watanabe, who incorporates tigers and dragons into his art, as Đokić has included Serbian log cabins and Norsemen boats into his designs for the Center.^[2]

Aleksandar Đokić died in Belgrade at the age of 65.^[3]

Notes

1. Mladjenovic, Ivica. Career sketch of Aleksandar Đokić in Modern Serbian Architecture: History of Serbian Culture (18th entry in descending order) Archived 2010-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
2. Photographs of Aleksandar Đokić's 1987 Yugoslav-Norwegian Friendship Center, built in the mountain town of Gornji Milanovac
3. Posthumous appreciation of Aleksandar Đokić's life and career published in the 30 May 2002 edition of Serbian weekly political magazine, NIN

References

• Manević, Zoran (1995). Aleksandar Đokić. BMG (Belgrade)
• Aleksandar Đokić — A Look Across: Career retrospective (April 2002). Belgrade: Museum of Applied Arts

External links

• Aleksandar Đokić at archINFORM