Milorad Ruvidić (in Cyrillic Serbian: Милорад Рувидић; Lipolist,

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, 5 April 1863 -

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, 4 January 1914) was a Serbian architect who lived and worked in the formative period of the

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that swept the continent and changed the landscape of all major European capitals, including Belgrade.

Biography

Milorad Ruvidić was born on 5 April 1863 in the village of Lipolist in

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, Serbia. As the son of Marija and Very Reverend Rajko Ruvidić, he attended the Gymnasium in Belgrade (better known as Realka High School), opting to pursue further studies in technical sciences. Milorad Ruvidić graduated in September 1884 from the Technical Faculty of the Belgrade's Velika škola, with twelve other colleagues who received government scholarships to study abroad. In 1884 he moved to

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and received his technical and artistic education in architecture at a Polytechnic Institute, better known as Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg ("TH Charlottenburg"). In 1893 he returned to Serbia where he entered the Royal Serbian government's Ministry of Public Works, where he was concerned with building construction. Later, he also taught architecture at the Velika škola, his ''alma mater''.

Works

In collaboration with Jovan Ilkić, he built the building of the officers' mess in Belgrade in 1895, inscribed on the list of cultural treasures of the city of Belgrade. In 1898-1899 Milorad Ruvidić built the house of Dimitrije Krsmanović in Belgrade; due to its architectural importance, this building appears on the list of protected cultural monuments of the Republic of Serbia, and on the list of protected cultural treasures of the City of Belgrade; it now houses the Austrian Embassy in Belgrade. Milorad Rudivić and Milan Kapetanović collaborated on the plan and design of the Serbian Pavilion in

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in 1900 for the Exposition Universelle. Serbia's church-like pavilion not only presented a fully-fledged statement of state-sponsored notions of national identity but also functioned as a direct ideological challenge to empires and countries alike that it was more than fit to enter into the

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of nations. The Smederevo Bank building in Belgrade, built between 1910 and 1912 and characteristic of

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and in pure

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style, is on the list of cultural monuments of great importance of the

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, and on the list of protected cultural treasures of the City of Belgrade. In 1911, Milorad Ruvidić and Branko Tanazević built the iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Transfiguration (''Crkva Preobrazenje'') of

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; this church, constructed on plans by

Svetozar Ivačković Svetozar Ivačković (Serbian language, Serbian Cyrillic: Светозар Ивачковић) (December 10, 1844 – January 30, 1924) was a distinguished post-Romanticism, Romantic Serbs, Serbian architect; the most famous representative of the f ...

, is also on the list of cultural monuments of exceptional importance in the Republic of Serbia.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruvidić, Milorad 1863 births 1914 deaths People from Šabac Serbian architects University of Belgrade alumni Academic staff of the University of Belgrade Technische Universität Berlin alumni Belle Époque People from the Kingdom of Serbia