The Personality of a city: Belgrade

Diana Smiljkovic

In The 7 Lamps of Architecture Ruskin states that “there are two strong conquerors of the forgetfulness of men… of the two architecture is superior because it presented not only what men have thought and felt, but what their hands have handled and their strength wrought, and their eyes beheld what are alone offered was the memory of human work, both manual and mental.” barricaded by interminable rows of a socialist utopia present a city whose potent strength persistently resists the dominance of forgetfulness, by living through society and its creations. visual timeline as fragments of each past protrude into its present. It stands proud, luring the traveller not with a question but with a statement, “let me tell you my story.” endurance and as a national identity. The orthodox church towards oppression due to its strong hold throughout different occupations.

Passion, wounds, triumphs, all becomes apparent through transmuting rows of enduring structures and their boundless, meandering streets.

Kalemegdan sits proudly overlooking the Great War Island and bricks ascending from its foundation to form the medieval fortress whose walls commemorate the transition through centuries. It follows the central grid layout of the ancient Roman city of the street. Yet it gains its physiognomy and content only after the manner, a transitional style from romanticism to renaissance which exhibits its rich spacial dramatics and tympanums.

It is not that they lack sympathy, but they emit understanding.

It is not religion itself but the potent strength established proving accept their loss of power however they still do serve their therefore they take a noble stand alongside their ancestry. whilst welcoming its descendants. A constant demand for innovation and construction is clear, allowing the city to expand architecturally. It does not restrain its borders to that of its past, but consents them to the opportunities of modern design. for the construction of natural materials. Vernacular architecture focuses on local materials and local craft, but it does not eliminate harmoniously converge into the surroundings as a representation of a clean slate, one of power and ambition, this architecture as one that lacks sympathy towards the ornate soft, sloping arches whose narrow, cobbled streets compose a

Representing a synthesis of several metropolises, it demises its own fragility as it proves that the ephemeral qualities of architectural aspects extend to that of the value they hold to society.