Influence of the socialist ideology on Typological Models of multi-family housing units Belgrade school of housing architecture

Abstract

The paper explores the ideological influences in the period of the socialist system on the design of the typological models of residential units built in Belgrade. After the Second World War, one of the main policy goal of socialism was to solve the housing problems of Belgrade, by building the modern, serially manufactured and economical housing architecture. The period of intensive construction of housing architecture of Belgrade in the period of socialist selfmanagement is defined by the term "Belgrade School" of housing architecture and it is primarily related to the achieved quality of housing in this period in terms of functional organization. This paper explores new concepts and principles of the" Belgrade School" of housing architecture with the emphasis on the impact of spatial-functional apartment transformation on the family lifestyle and the formation of a new socialist culture of dwelling. Since the problem of housing is interdisciplinary, the transformation is studied out through detecting the relations of cause and effect among ideological social changes, culture of habitation, technical and technological criteria and functional-spatial house structure. The evolution of "Belgrade school" of housing architecture has become a representation of social, political, economic, demographic and cultural changes of the period.