EDA Esempi di Architettura

Josip Broz Tito’s Yugoslavia, in addition to carrying out its own political identity, was transmitted through the characterization of the image of cities. The architectural celebration as the representative of the regime’s power had to be the symbol of the cultural and political identity of a nation that was in reality a multi-ethnic and complex collective identity. Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is certainly one of the cities of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that best represents this complexity and in which the ideal of a socialist city has had important results both on an urban and architectural scale. The construction of the Skenderija Culture and Sport Center, in 1969, endows the city with a unique work in its intentions, content and dimensions. In fact, the complex receives the "Yugoslav National Borba Prize" as the best architectural project in Yugoslavia. The work was revisited and expanded during the 1984 Winter Olympics, which saw Sarajevo as the protagonist of new urban transformations. The city is affected by major renovation and improvement interventions on a large scale, capable of producing territorial transformations in the central spaces of the city. The nationalist war of the 90s put the entire city to a hard testing and did not save the symbolic places. The Skenderija Culture and Sport Center as well as the Zetra Olimpic Center suffered serious damage. Today, despite the difficulties, socialist Sarajevo, among ruins and urban icons, confirms its role for its ability to represent that sense of unity and brotherhood that the Tito era was able to give to the city.