This study examines how architectural design education addresses environmental and social responsibility. Using New European Bauhaus (NEB) categories as a value framework, design results from two architecture schools were compared. It questions how students express environmental awareness and social responsibility, and how disciplinary autonomy can...

By Ana Nikezić, Milena Grbić, Olivera Dulić

Inherited multi-family housing estates from the socialist period remain a major residential layer in the former Yugoslav republics, while their public open spaces (POS) often decline under post-socialist governance and market pressures. This paper provides a selective overview of three good-practice pathways for (re)creating POS: participatory upgr...

By Ivana Bogdanovic Protic, Ljiljana Vasilevska, Jelena Živković, Milica Ljubenović, Magdalena Slavković

Pedestrian route choice in cities depends both on the overall structure of the street network and on local decisions made at points of directional change. While space syntax has shown the importance of configurational relations, wayfinding and navigation tasks point to additional cognitive mechanisms related to landmarks, route legibility, and task...

By Maja Ilić, Dajana Papaz, Andrej Simićević

This paper presents a vulnerability assessment of an historical masonry building representative of early 20th-century construction. The structure consists of load-bearing masonry walls with timber floors and lacks seismic detailing. The methodology included visual inspection, typological classification and simplified control analysis. Observed dama...

By Mladen Slijepčević, Anđelko Cumbo, Saša Čvoro, Zoran Uljarević, Radovan Vukomanović

The urban transformation of Banja Luka, which during the final period of socialism (1975–1990), was guided by the City’s Urban Plan, has proceeded without a clear strategic vision of urban development since the late 1990s. During this period, the city developed according to detailed regulatory plans and was strongly influenced by neolib...

By Brankica Milojević

This study examines the load–deflection response of continuous self-compacting concrete (SCC) beams incorporating recycled coarse aggregates. Nine two-span beams with reinforcement ratios of 0.65–0.94% were experimentally tested using 50% and 100% aggregate replacement. Recycled aggregate beams showed slightly reduced stiffness and incr...

By Žarko Petrović, Bojan Milosevic, Marija Spasojević Šurdilović, Andrija Zorić, Dragana Turnić

This paper presents a hybrid model integrating the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) to optimize construction machinery selection based on cost, CO2 emissions, maintenance, and age. AHP was used to determine precise weighting criteria, while a Python-based GA explored the solution space using technical penalty functions. ...

By Željko Marinković, Nikola Knezevic, Predrag Petronijević, Nataša Praščević

Modernist architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains marginalised within official heritage frameworks, with only limited institutional recognition. This study explores social media as an extended research environment for examining contemporary perceptions and social constructions of modernist heritage values. Using a case study of Kazimir Ostro...

By Nevena Novaković, Aleksandar Marić

This study focuses on collecting data on non-existent architectural heritage and transforming it into structured input for AI visualization, based on the case study of the Chapel of Saint Petka in Brestač, which was demolished after the Second World War and the early communist period. Archival documents, cartographic sources, and interviews with wi...

By Una Radivojević

The Architecture of Emptiness is an urban-architectural approach that focuses on the qualities and possibilities of unbuilt space, giving it primacy over built space. The proposed approach explores how emptiness can act as a generative force for urban-architectural pieces and how, in return, it echoes its built and natural environment. It highlight...

By Ljiljana Čavić