Selman Selmanagić – „balkanski Le Corbusier“

Abstract

This paper presents new facts, hitherto unpublished in Croatia, concerning the life and work of Selman Selmanagić, the well-known Berlin architect, designer and professor. The life of this successful Bosniak was saturated with influences from the various cultures and communities in which he lived, studied and worked. He was born in Srebrenica, and went to school in Sarajevo, Ljubljana and Dessau. He spent the majority of his working life in Berlin where, among other activities, he led the Department of Architecture at the Kunsthochschule for twenty years. The article focuses on his life, the development of his rich career and all of his most important achievements. It is of particular interest that he actively took part as a main consultant in the renovation project of the Bauhaus building in Dessau in 1975.

Keywords

• Selman Selmanagić
• Bauhaus
• twentieth century
• architecture
• Dessau
• Berlin
• design