TY - JOUR
T1 - Modernist architecture, conflict, heritage and resilience: the case of the historical museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
AU - Harrington, Selma
AU - Dimitrijevic, Branka
AU - Salama, Ashraf M.
PY - 2017/11/30
Y1 - 2017/11/30
N2 - Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the successor states of former Yugoslavia, with a history of dramatic conflicts and ruptures. These have left a unique heritage of interchanging prosperity and destruction, in which the built environment and architecture provide a rich evidence of the many complex identity narratives. The public function and architecture of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, once purposely built to commemorate the national liberation in World War 2, encapsulates the current situation in the country, which is navigating through a complicated period of reconstruction and transformation after the war in 1990s. Once considered as the embodiment of a purist Modernist architecture, now a damaged structure with negligible institutional patronage, the Museum shelters the fractured artefacts of life during the three and a half years siege of Sarajevo. This paper introduces a research into symbiotic elements of architecture and public function of the Museum. The impact of conflict on its survival, resilience and continuity of use is explored through its potentially mediatory role and modelling for similar cases of reuse of a 20th century architectural heritage.
AB - Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the successor states of former Yugoslavia, with a history of dramatic conflicts and ruptures. These have left a unique heritage of interchanging prosperity and destruction, in which the built environment and architecture provide a rich evidence of the many complex identity narratives. The public function and architecture of the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, once purposely built to commemorate the national liberation in World War 2, encapsulates the current situation in the country, which is navigating through a complicated period of reconstruction and transformation after the war in 1990s. Once considered as the embodiment of a purist Modernist architecture, now a damaged structure with negligible institutional patronage, the Museum shelters the fractured artefacts of life during the three and a half years siege of Sarajevo. This paper introduces a research into symbiotic elements of architecture and public function of the Museum. The impact of conflict on its survival, resilience and continuity of use is explored through its potentially mediatory role and modelling for similar cases of reuse of a 20th century architectural heritage.
KW - modernist architecture
KW - heritage buildings
KW - Bosnia and Herzegovina
KW - conflict and identity narratives
KW - public function
KW - reuse of architectural heritage
KW - resilience
UR - https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/62630/
U2 - 10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i3.1330
DO - 10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i3.1330
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 178
EP - 192
JO - Archnet-IJAR
JF - Archnet-IJAR
SN - 2631-6862
IS - 3
ER -