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Most significant buildings of the moderne style multi-family housing in Nis 1920-1941

Keković Aleksandar (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Niš)
Čemerikić Zoran (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Niš)

The paper presents the buildings of multi-family housing which were designed and constructed in the spirit of the Moderne movement, in the period between two world wars, that is 1920 - 1941 in Nis. The Moderne movement which was dominant architectonic movement in Europe after the world war I, quickly gained followers in Serbia, and thus in Nis, both the architects and investors, because of its functionality and building cost-efficiency. The representative housing buildings in Nis, which were designed in the spirit of the Moderne, exhibit some aspects of development of these structures, that is, influences of the preceding styles and an inherited building model on the formation of Serbian, that is, Nis Moderne and its significance for the development of the city of Nis in the later period. .

Keywords: moderne, moderne of Nis, housing