Modernism in the case of hotel architecture in socialist Yugoslavia Proceedings - Importance of place, (2017), Cicop BiH, Sarajevo

Former state Yugoslavia, after II world war, declared wish to establish own social and state system somewhere between capitalist West and the socialist East of Europe, representing a specific area, in the geopolitical, but also cultural sense. The modernists’ idea of new architecture and architects as creators of social welfare and happiness coincided with the declared ideals of a new socialist society. Intensive relationships and openness to the West, architects "infected" by modernist ideas and unquestioning and phenomenological support of the system generated an authentic modernism. Hotels constructed in Yugoslavia were created very differently than in numerous destinations of mass-tourism of the Mediterranean in same time. Yugoslav hotel architecture from that period can be studied as a special expression of modernism, strongly determined with the place and strong connections between man and nature, with careful material selection and adaptation to specific climatic conditions.
Keywords: modernism, Yugoslavia, context, hotel architecture