Svetlana Kana Radević belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Svetlana Kana Radević as Montenegrin architect (1937-2000).
Svetlana Kana Radević was born at Cetinje in 1937. Her recorded nationality is Montenegro. She trained at University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture and University of Pennsylvania.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect.
Her best-known building is Hotel Podgorica. Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Montenegro shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Svetlana Kana Radević died in 2000, aged 63. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Notable work: Hotel Podgorica
- Trained at University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture and University of Pennsylvania
