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The National Assembly House of the Republic of Serbia, in Belgrade, is a monumental publicbuilding, which has, from the very beginning of its existence, represented basic political and culturalinterests and preferences. It has remained the visual paradigm of Serbia's national course andsovereignty to this day. It has had great importance throughout its history. This paper deals with theuse of the premises of the National Assembly and the image of the Assembly being developed in thestate repository. In the service of various ideological determinants, the House of the NationalAssembly has been recognized as an architectural symbol that has often been conquered by theauthorities. The aim of the paper is to show how the architectural symbol of the city becomes avisual indicator of power,i.e., a concrete indicator of the structure of gaining and losing power.
National Assembly, ideology, space, spectacle, power, symbol
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