The Socialist Architecture of Svetlana Kana Radević
Svetlana Kana Radević was one of the great architects of socialist Yugoslavia — her emphasis on public space showed what architecture can achieve when liberated from the constraints of the property market.
One of the unexpected hits of the delayed 2021 Biennale of Architecture in Venice has been Skirting the Center, an exhibition by a Montenegrin-American team on the extraordinary work and life of Svetlana Kana Radević, an architect whose career spanned Yugoslavia, the United States, and Japan.
We spoke to Dijana Vućinić, one of the exhibition’s curators.
Owen Hatherley
First of all, if you don’t mind the incredibly obvious question — who was Svetlana Kana Radević? What were her major buildings?
Dijana Vućinić
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