DESIGN AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING ARCHITECTURE IN THE PERIOD OF MATURE AND LATE MODERN ARCHITECTURE OF NIŠ - CASE STUDIES

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the functional and design characteristics of multifamily (formerly collective) residential buildings created in the post-war period of Modern architecture of Niš. For the post-war period of intensive and mass construction of residential buildings, a time classification of constructed buildings was performed, and they are classified into two categories. The first category includes buildings built in the 1950s, in the period of the „mature“ Modern architecture, which is a continuation of modern architecture of Niš between the two world wars. The second category consists of residential buildings created in the late 1960s and 1970s, in the period of the late (industrial) Modern architecture of Niš. In this paper, two representative examples of residential and commercial buildings from the mentioned periods were selected, both built on the 14. Oktobar square, in the central core of the city of Niš. As typological representatives of the mentioned periodizations of construction, the buildings will be analyzed in the form of two case studies.