In the history of building, Jelisaveta Načić is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jelisaveta Načić as Serbian architect (1878-1955).
Jelisaveta Načić was born at Belgrade in 1878. Her recorded nationality is Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. She trained at University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
She is recorded as architect.
Among her best-known works are Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade, Elementary School King Petar I and Small Staircase in Kalemegdan Park. An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Jelisaveta Načić died in 1955, aged 77. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade
- Notable work: Elementary School King Petar I
- Notable work: Small Staircase in Kalemegdan Park
- Notable work: Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Shtime
- Trained at University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture
