Momir Korunović is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Momir Korunović as Serbian architect (1883-1969).
Momir Korunović was born at Glogovac in 1883. His recorded nationality is Serbia. He trained at Charles University.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect.
Among his best-known works are Zgrada Ministarstva pošta and Marshal of the Court. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
That the work was built in Serbia shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Momir Korunović died in 1969, aged 86. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Zgrada Ministarstva pošta
- Notable work: Marshal of the Court
- Trained at Charles University
