NEIDHARDT’S VERNACULAR-MODERNIST GLOSSARY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Abstract

The construction principles underlying Bosnia and Herzegovina’s traditional building and the characteristics of its modernist architecture provide a basis for a set of criteria to evaluate its modernist heritage. The architect and town planner Juraj Neidhardt created a modernist-vernacular glossary of Bosnian-Herzegovinian architecture and town planning, with new terms based on analogies with concepts and spatial elements used in the past. Neidhardt’s modernism has regional characteristics and is the earliest representation of critical regionalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1970s. There is a real need to reconsider and conceptualize alternative approaches to the process of revaluation of the entire material heritage of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian modernist era.