Uglješa Bogunović Explained

Native Name:	Угљеша Богуновић
Birth Date:	22 October 1922
Birth Place:	Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Death Place:	Belgrade, Serbia

Uglješa Bogunović (1922-1994) was a Serbian architect, among Belgrade's and the country's most prominent.^[1]

Bogunović was born on 1922 in Teslić, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina).^[2]

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.

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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Serbia in the World. 2000.
2. Book: Jugoslovenska umetnost XX veka: Srpska arhitektura, 1900-1970. 1972. Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade. 130. bs. Yugoslav Art of the 20th Century: Serbian Architecture, 1900-1970. 46321451.
3. Encyclopedia: The Nato Bombing Of Yugoslavia (1999) 20 Years Later – The Problems Of Legality, Legitimacy And Consequences. Krivokapić. Boris. Vuković. Nebojša. David Vs. Goliath: NATO War Against Yugoslavia and Its Implications. 2019. Institute of International Politics and Economics. 978-86-7067-261-1. 466.
4. Book: Beard. Danijela Š.. Made in Yugoslavia: Studies in Popular Music. Rasmussen. Ljerka V.. June 2020. Routledge . 9781315452319.
5. Book: Janićijević, Jovan. The Cultural Treasury of Serbia. 1998. IDEA. 978-86-7547-039-7. en.
6. Web site: Joint Translation Service. 8 October 1964. Summary of the Yugoslav Press.
7. Web site: Uglješa Bogunović MoMA. 2021-07-13. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
8. Web site: Valentin Jeck, Uglješa Bogunović, Slobodan Janjić, Milan Krstić. Avala TV Tower, Mount Avala, Belgrade, Serbia (Exterior view, 2016). 2016 MoMA. 2021-07-13. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
9. Exhibition Review: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. 10.1080/17547075.2019.1558969. 2019. James. Brian. Design and Culture. 11. 142–144. 197757239.