Aleksandar Deroko | |
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| Born | (1894-09-04)4 September 1894 |
| Died | 30 November 1988(1988-11-30) (aged 94) |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Occupation | Architect |
Aleksandar Deroko (Serbian Cyrillic:Александар Дероко; 4 September 1894 – 30 November 1988) was a Serbian architect, artist, and author. He was a professor of theBelgrade University and a member of theSerbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
His great-grandfather was a Venetian named Marco de Rocco, who moved toDubrovnik (in theKingdom of Dalmatia) and married a local woman.[citation needed] Aleksandar's grandfather, Jovan, came to Belgrade to be an art teacher. On his maternal side, his great-uncle wasJovan Đorđević (1826–1900), the founder of theSerbian National Theatre inNovi Sad. Deroko was also related to the famous Serbian writerStevan Sremac (1855–1906).[citation needed]
During his childhood years, his family lived in his great-uncles' house atKnez Mihailova Street, in the center of Belgrade. He was not a very good student in elementary and secondary school, in fact he barely managed to graduate. As he said in his biography, he preferred boating on the riverSava to studying.[1] Before World War I, he enrolled at the Technical Faculty of theUniversity of Belgrade.
In the beginning of the war he volunteered in the artillery, but was transferred toSkoplje to join the battalion of1300 Corporals and was made asergeant. As he was an aeronautical pioneer before the war, he was transferred to the newly formedRoyal Serbian Air Force. He was sent to France for training in the 1915, and thus escaped the Serbian retreat in the autumn and winter of that year. His squadron joined the recovered Serbian army on theSalonika front, where he fought until the end of the war and the liberation ofSerbia.
He studiedarchitecture in Rome,Prague,Brno and he graduated in Belgrade in 1926. With aFrench governmentscholarship he studied in Paris, where he made friends withPicasso,Sava Šumanović,Rastko Petrović,Le Corbusier and others who then lived in Paris. In the early 1930s he became a full professor at the Architectural Faculty in Belgrade. He taughtMedieval andByzantine architecture. He made a project, along with theNikola Nestorović, for theTemple of Saint Sava in that period, and in the 1935 the work on it began. He was an author of many books, most famouslyMedieval Castles on the Danube (1964) andMischiefs around Kalemegdan (1987).Beside architecture he made illustrations on his personal postcards, created in the period when his diligent and wearisome architectural activity finally subsided somewhat, demonstrate the energetic Belgrade atmosphere, conviviality, eroticism, in a word – all the liberalism of the new educated middle class.[2]
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