Svetlana Kana Radević (

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: Светлана Кана Радевић; 21 November 1937 8 November 2000) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin architect, credited as the first female Montenegrin architect. Her work has been recognized by two national architecture prizes.

Biography

Svetlana Kana Radević was born on 21 November 1937 in

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, where she attended elementary school and then completed high school at Slobodan Škerović School in Titograd (now Podgorica). She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade and then went on to attain a master's degree from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. She continued her studies in Japan, which strongly influenced her later work. She was a full member of Doclean Academy of Sciences and Arts and the first vice president of '' Matica crnogorska'', as well as a foreign member of the

Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS or, transliterating the Russian acronym, RAASN) (, РААСН) is an official academy of the Russian Federation specializing in architecture and construction, notably of urban buil ...

. Her style was distinctive for the selection of materials she used, melding the structures with their external environment and the substantial size and power of her designs. Her most noted work was the Hotel Podgorica, for which she won the Federal Borba Award for Architecture in 1967. The building typifies her style in that it uses stone, a traditional building material, to play with unique shapes which jut out from the façade, in an nontraditional manner. At the same time, the building fits into the landscape as if its concrete mass were always part of the environment. Her Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of ''

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'' in Barutana also won a national competition in 1975. Radević died on 8 November 2000.

Works

* Kruševac Business Center and bus station * Hotel Podgorica * Hotel Mojkovac * Hotel Zlatibor, Užice (Serbia) * Lexicographic Institute * Monument to the Fallen Soldiers of

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References

External links

The Socialist Architecture of Svetlana Kana Radević

photographs of Hotel Podgorica

Architectural Review
Svetlana Kana Radević (1937–2000)
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First Lady of Montenegrin Architecture {{DEFAULTSORT:Radevic, Svetlana Kana 1937 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Montenegrin architects Montenegrin architects University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture alumni University of Pennsylvania Montenegrin women architects Fulbright alumni