Month-Long Celebration of Belgrade's Architecture

Besides numerous exhibitions, the festival running from May 8 to 31 under the overarching theme of "Public Space", includes 16 workshops as well as 10 tours.

Alongside domestic experts in the field, the international guests at the festival are Hans Nevidal from Austria, Geir Brendeland from Norway and Zef Hemel from The Netherlands.

Ivana Djurisic, from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, told a press conference on the eve of the opening of BINA that this year's programme will attract not only professionals but the widest possible audience, because "it treats different topics important for Serbia – the shaping of public and urban spaces, various types of construction, eco-friendly materials and the methodology of learning architecture".

The ninth festival is being organized by EUNIC, the European Union National Institutes for Culture in Belgrade, the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, the Nordic Culture Fund and Serbia's Centre for the Promotion of Science.

Nicolaus Keller, of EUNIC, said they had organized 15 activities in cooperation with BINA, among which he mentioned a mural that is planned for the Long Night of the Museums (May 17 to 18), exhibitions such as"Going Public: Architecture, urbanism and interventions," "Learning from the example of the Gazela Bridge" and "Igloo – a sculpture for the public space."

A workshop by Osamu Okamura | Photo Courtesy of BINA

He noted that one of the workshops at Trg Republike square will teach visitors about urban gardening by advising them on how to build their own green oases in the city.

A project by the Goethe Institute in Belgrade called "Urban incubator" will be presented through tours of Savamala, a neglected city quarter that project wishes to...