Status of monument -> National monument
Pursuant to Article V para. 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 39 para. 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at a session held from 26 to 28 March 2012 the Commission adopted a
D E C I S I O N
I
The historic mixed-use building of the Vakuf of Hovadža Kemaludin (Mekteb) in Sarajevo is hereby designated as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the National Monument).
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 2005, cadastral municipality Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 30, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), Land Register entry no. 123, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The provisions relating to protection measures set forth by the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH nos. 2/02, 27/02, 6/04 and 51/07) shall apply to the National Monument.
II
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the Government of the Federation) shall be responsible for providing the legal, scientific, technical, administrative and financial measures necessary for the protection, conservation, restoration and presentation of the National Monument.
The Commission to Preserve National Monuments (hereinafter: the Commission) shall determine the technical requirements and secure the funds for preparing and setting up signboards with basic details of the monument and the Decision to proclaim the property a National Monument.
III
To ensure the on-going protection of the National Monument on the area defined in Clause 1 para. 2 of this Decision, the following protection measures are hereby stipulated.
- all works are prohibited other than investigative and conservation-restoration works, remedial works, and works designed for the presentation of the monument, with the approval of the federal ministry responsible for regional planning (hereinafter: the relevant ministry) and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter: the heritage protection authority);
- the original appearance of the property shall be preserved during restoration works;
- the premises may be adapted to suit modern needs (installation of central heating and other interior works), provided that the stylistic features of the property are retained, and subject to the approval of the relevant ministry and under the expert supervision of the heritage protection authority;
- the ground floor shop windows on the east side of Ferhadija shall be redesigned in line with documentation on their original state, and the air-conditioning units shall be removed;
- the property may be used for residential and commercial purposes in a manner that shall not compromise the integrity of the building and its meaning in the townscape.
IV
All executive and area development planning acts are hereby revoked to the extent that they are not in accordance with the provisions of this Decision.
V
Everyone, and in particular the competent authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Canton, and urban and municipal authorities, shall refrain from any action that might damage the National Monument or jeopardize the protection thereof.
VI
The Government of the Federation, the relevant ministry, the heritage protection authority, and the Municipal Authorities in charge of urban planning and land registry affairs, shall be notified of this Decision in order to carry out the measures stipulated in Articles II to V of this Decision, and the Authorized Municipal Court shall be notified for the purposes of registration in the Land Register.
VII
The elucidation and accompanying documentation form an integral part of this Decision, which may be viewed by interested parties on the premises or by accessing the website of the Commission (http://www.kons.gov.ba)
VIII
Pursuant to Art. V para 4 Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, decisions of the Commission are final.
IX
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of BiH.
This Decision has been adopted by the following members of the Commission: Zeynep Ahunbay, Martin Cherry, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Dubravko Lovrenović and Ljiljana Ševo.
No. 07.3-2.3-73/12-12
27 March 2012
Sarajevo
Chair of the Commission
Amra Hadžimuhamedović
E l u c i d a t i o n
I – INTRODUCTION
Pursuant to Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a “National Monument” is an item of public property proclaimed by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to be a National Monument pursuant to Articles V and VI of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and property entered on the Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02) until the Commission reaches a final decision on its status, as to which there is no time limit and regardless of whether a petition for the property in question has been submitted or not.
On 1 October 2010, Emir Kadić of Toronto, Canada, submitted a petition/proposal to the Commission to Preserve National Monuments to designate the mixed-use building of the Vakuf of Hovadža Kemaludin (Mekteb) in Sarajevo as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Commission proceeded to carry out the procedure for reaching a final decision to designate the Property as a National Monument, pursuant to Article V para. 4 of Annex 8 and Article 35 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments.
Statement of Significance
The mixed-use building of the Vakuf of Hovadža [Khawaja] Kemaludin (Mekteb) in Sarajevo is one of the most important modernist buildings of the inter-war period by Reuf Kadić, one of the pioneers of modernism in Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the time it was built, the property was one of the finest mixed-use buildings in the city, equipped and fitted to the highest standards, and is now of major documentary value as part of the townscape ensemble of Ferhadija Street in Sarajevo's inner city centre.
II – PRELIMINARY PROCEDURE
In the procedure preceding the adoption of a final decision to proclaim the property a national monument, the following documentation was inspected:
- details of the current condition and use of the property, including a description, architectural survey and photographs
- an inspection of the current state of the property
- a copy of the cadastral plan
- a copy of the Land Register entry
- historical, architectural and other documentary material on the property, as set out in the bibliography forming part of this Decision
Pursuant to Article V para. 2 of Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Article 37 of the Rules of Procedure of the Commission, before rendering a final decision designating a property as a national monument, the Commission is required to provide the owner of the proposed monument, the person submitting the petition, the institutions responsible for heritage, professional and academic institutions, experts and scholars, as well as other interested parties, to express their views. On 1 October 2010 Commission received a petition with enclosures (a book on CD: Emir Kadić, Arhitekt Reuf Kadić i počeci moderne arhitekture u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo: Emir Kadić, 2010).
Accordingly, the Commission sent a letter ref. 07.3 – 35.2-10/10-228 dated 26 November 2010 requesting documentation and views on the designation of the Hovadža Kemaludin (Mekteb) building in Sarajevo to the Archives of BiH, the Construction Authority of Sarajevo Canton, the Institute for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Sarajevo Canton, the Development Planning Authority of Sarajevo Canton, Centar Municipality, and the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport.
As of the date of adoption of this decision, Centar Municipality had not submitted its views in writing concerning the said property, which is state-owned.
The findings based on the review of the above documentation and the condition of the property are as follows:
1. Details of the property
Location
The mixed-use building of the Vakuf of Hovadža Kemaludin (Mekteb) is in the centre of Sarajevo, on the corner of Čemaluša St. on the south side of Ferhadija St. To the west, on the opposite side of Čemaluša St., is a property that includes the JAT high-rise(1) building. To the east, on Ferhadija St., the building adjoining the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building dates from the Austro-Hungarian period, while the adjoining building to the south, on Čemaluša St., was built in the early years of the latter half of the 20th century.
The National Monument is located on a site designated as cadastral plot no. 2005, cadastral municipality Sarajevo IV (new survey), corresponding to c.p. no. 30, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX (old survey), Land Register entry no. 123, Municipality Centar, Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Historical background
Ferhadija St, where the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building is located, which is named after the mahala of Bosnia’s sanjak-bey Ferhat-bey(2), dates from the 16th century. The section to the east, in the Gazi Husrev-bey mahala, was the first to be laid out, in 1531, with the western section, also known as Mala (little) Ferhadija, dates from about 1562(3). Mala Ferhadija extended to Čemaluša mahala, where Hovadža Kemaludin’s (Ćemaludin’s) mosque was built before 1515(4). Alongside it was a burial ground, fountain and vakuf-endowed girls’ mekteb(5). In the late 1930s the mosque and mekteb were demolished to make way for vakuf properties(6). A mixed-use corner building was erected on the site of the mekteb, while the site of the mosque was used to create a complex mixed-use property part of which is the JAT high-rise building.
Between the two world wars urban architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and particularly in Sarajevo, began to be strongly influenced by European modernism. Local architects were trained in Prague(7) and other European cities, returning inspired by modernism based on Cubism and neo-plasticism and aspiring to create unrestrained designs of pure geometric architectural form(8).
Most new buildings in central Sarajevo at that time were for residential properties, most of them designed in the modernist style as infills, as there were almost no plans for urban expansion at that time(9).
The brothers Muhamed and Reuf Kadić(10) returned to Sarajevo in the 1930s, after studying architecture at the Technical University in Prague(11). It was during this decade that they designed some of the most important modernist buildings in Sarajevo. The nature of their collaboration has yet to be fully clarified(12); there is reliable evidence that they worked together on certain buildings, but such evidence is lacking for others. It is generally, if not unanimously(13), believed that the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (mekteb) was designed by Reuf Kadić(14).
He began working at the Vakuf Directorate in Sarajevo in November 1935, as head of the Technical Office and chief architect, a post he retained until August 1942. During his time at the Directorate, he designed and built over fifty buildings for the Vakuf, among them the Čokadži hajji Sulejman Vakuf mixed-use corner building, one of his finest designs. The design of the building was completed in June 1939(15), and construction began immediately. The design for the Čokadži hajji Sulejman Vakuf building belongs to Reuf Kadić’s second period (1934-41)(16), during which he produced five of his finest designs in Sarajevo in just three years, from 1938 to 1940(17), either solo or as co-designer(18). At the time, the building provided some of the finest and best-equipped housing in the city, with telephones, electricity and gas(19), as well as solid-fuel central heating. The upper storeys were residential, while the ground floor was originally occupied by Sarajevo’s famous Ramiz patisserie.(20)”
The building suffered no damage during World War II. Another mixed-use building was erected next to it on Čemaluša St. in the 1960s, and at this time too the gas supply to the building was cut off and heating was provided by TA stoves(21) and solid fuel. The second-floor flats were converted into one during the 1980s.
The building suffered almost no damage during the 1992-1995 war, since when it has undergone routine maintenance, including work on the flat roof, and the gas supply has been reintroduced. The building is still used for both residential and commercial purposes, with one of Sarajevo’s more popular cafés occupying the ground floor.
2. Description of the property
The building is a modernist-style corner block, roughly rectangular in plan, measuring 10.73 x 13.33 m. It has five storeys plus a basement and attic, and is 21.50 m in overall height. Functionally, it consists of a ground floor with business premises with residential storeys above.
The main entrance(22) to the residential part of the building is on the west side, from Čemaluša St. The entrances to the two ground-floor commercial premises face Ferhadija St(23). On the west side of the ground floor is an entrance stairwell of 300 x 400 cm with a double-flight staircase(24), while to the east and northwest are commercial premises measuring respectively 3.45 x 5.07 m and 5.88 x 8.35 m.
The first, second and third storeys each consist of two flats of different sizes and layout. To the northwest are two-and-a-half bedroom flats with an area of 73.50 sq.m(25), cantilevered out by 120 cm to the north and west; to the east are bedsits with an area of 26.00 sq.m.
The larger flats consist of an entrance hallway of 150 x 290 cm with a toilet; a living room of 507 x 392 cm with double glazed doors opening into a dining room of 525 x 250 cm opening onto a glazed loggia of 480 x 120 cm; a bedroom of 446 x 405 cm with a bathroom of 240 x 170 cm; a kitchen of 362 x 267 cm with a larder and a room of 268 x 140 cm, originally the maid’s room, now mainly used as a boxroom.
The bedsits consist of an entrance hallway of 175 x 130 cm with a bathroom, and a single room of 396 x 507 cm.
The fourth floor differs in that it has no bedsits, but only the larger flat.
The attic consists of common parts of 30 sq.m. to the south and a flat roof terrace of 41 sq.m to the north.
The façades of this corner building at the intersection of Ferhadija and Čemaluša Streets are modernist in design. The ground floor consists of the large glazed windows of the commercial premises, while the upper storeys are faced with green ceramic tiles and have cantilevered jutties with strip windows and the large expanses of glass of the loggias(26).
The ground floor of the north façade, facing Ferhadija St., has shop windows and the glazed entrances to the two commercial premises which together measure 10 x 3 m. Above is a cantilevered jutty with strip windows of 4.06 x 1.85 m and the glazed area of the loggia, measuring 1.00 x 2.30 m, while to the east are windows of 2.70 x 1.85 m(27).
In design, the west façade is a continuation of the north, with the same cantilevered jutty, glazed area of the loggia and strip windows of the same width as those overlooking Ferhadija St. The glazed area facing Čemaluša St. is 4.52 cm long, while the strip windows are respectively 2.50 m and 5.00 m in length. At the southernmost end, over the entrance portal of 170 x 220 cm, is a recessed section of the façade with two-light windows of 1.20 x 1.85 m on each storey.
To the south, facing the narrow inner courtyard, are the plastered rear façades of the building, with the windows of the service quarters of the flats.
The construction and materials of the building consist of a reinforced concrete system of bearing walls, beams and posts with a brick infill. The façades are clad with green ceramic tiles, and the inside walls are plastered. The original shop windows had metal casings, while those of the upper floors were wooden, with the exception of the metal casings of the loggias. The interior staircase is of reinforced concrete, with a metal balustrade and wooden handrail.
The flat roof to the northwest is clad with concrete tiles, the attic to the south has a classic gabled roof, and the eastern end of the building, along Ferhadija, has a pent roof. The outer and bearing walls are 38 cm thick, the interior walls 17 cm thick. The ground floor ceilings are 3.90 m high, and those of the first, second, third and fourth floors are 2.95 m high. The interstorey joist structure is 0.40 m thick.
3. Legal status to date
According to the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport(28), the mixed-use Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (Mekteb) in Sarajevo was listed but not entered in the register of cultural monuments, but forms part of the protected townscape of Vase Miskina St (now again known as Ferhadija St.).
4. Research and conservation-restoration works
It is not known whether any systematic investigative or conservation-restoration works have been carried out on the mixed-use Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (Mekteb) in Sarajevo. Most of the works carried out since it was first built have been routine maintenance or minor building works.
5. Current condition of the property
The mixed-use Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (Mekteb) in Sarajevo is in very good structural and general condition, with the exception of the façades facing the inner courtyard, which are in a state of neglect. The flat roof is maintained to an exemplary standard and no leakage has been observed.
The façades and stairwells are almost in their original state, with the exception of the shop windows of the ground-floor premises on the east side of Ferhadija, where the metalwork and colour scheme of the glazed areas have been altered.
Inside, the front doors to the flats have been replaced, as has much of the interior woodwork. Most of the original enamelled solid-fuel heating stoves and the built-in stoves in the kitchens have been removed.
The bedsit and larger flat on the second floor have been knocked into one.
6. Specific risks
- some penetration of atmospheric moisture through the façades of the inner courtyards.
III – CONCLUSION
Applying the Criteria for the adoption of a decision on proclaiming an item of property a national monument (Official Gazette of BiH nos. 33/02 and 15/03), the Commission has enacted the Decision cited above.
The Decision was based on the following criteria:
A. Time frame
C. Artistic and aesthetic value
C.i. quality of workmanship
C.ii. quality of materials
C.iii. proportions
C.iv. composition
C.v. value of details
D. Clarity (documentary, scientific and educational value)
D.iii. work of a major artist or builder
F. Townscape/ Landscape value
F.ii. meaning in the townscape
G. Authenticity
G.i. form and design
G.ii. material and content
G.iii. use and function
G.v. location and setting
I. Completeness
I.i. physical coherence
I.ii. homogeneity
I.iii. completeness
The following documents form an integral part of this Decision:
- Ownership documentation
- copy of cadastral plan 2005, c.m. Sarajevo IV (new survey), p.l. 727, plan no. SA 148; scale 1:1000 (old survey c.p. no. 30, c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX), issued on 30 November 2010 by the Department of Proprietary Rights, Geodetics and Cadastral Affairs, Centar Municipality, Sarajevo Canton, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Land Register entry for plot no. 30., c.m. Sarajevo XXXIX, Land Register entry no. 123 (old survey), Nar. No. 065-0-NarII-010-067603 of 13 December 2010, Land Registry office of the Municipal Court in Sarajevo, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Documentation on previous protection of the property
- letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport ref. 07-40-4-4499-1/10 of 2 December 2010
- Photodocumentation
- historical photographs of the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (Mekteb) in Sarajevo taken in 1939 - Emir Kadić. Arhitekt Reuf Kadić i počeci moderne arhitekture u Bosni i Hercegovini. Sarajevo: Emir Kadić, 2010, 52
- photographs of the interior and exterior of the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf building (Mekteb) in Sarajevo taken in December 2010 by architect Adi Ćorović using Sony DSC – H10 digital camera
- Technical documentation
- Reuf Kadić, blueprint of west elevation. Sarajevo, Vakuf Directorate, 1938/39. Emir Kadić. Arhitekt Reuf Kadić i počeci moderne arhitekture u Bosni i Hercegovini. Sarajevo: Emir Kadić, 2010, 52
- Muhamed Nalo, BSc.Arch, and Rejhana Šakić, BSc.Arch, plan of second storey of no. 10 Šaloma Albaharija St., present state, Sarajevo, 1981
- Muhamed Nalo, BSc.Arch, and Rejhana Šakić, BSc.Arch, plan of second storey of no. 10 Šaloma Albaharija St., after conversion. Sarajevo, 1981
- Other documentation
- Resolution concerning works on the second storey of the building at no. 10 Šaloma Albaharija St., Centar Municipality (Municipal Committee for Urbanism and Construction, Proprietary Rights and Cadastre), no. 07/C-364-66/81, 29 January 1981
- Report on maintenance of common parts of the building – entrance – for 2002-2010, no. 10 Čemaluša St. Sarajevo: Sarajevostan, 2010
Bibliography
During the procedure to designate the monument as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina the following works were consulted:
1973. Bejtić, Alija. Ulice i trgovi starog Sarajeva (Streets and squares of old Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Sarajevo Museum, 1973.
1988. Various authors. Graditelji Sarajeva (The builders of Sarajevo). Sarajevo: Radio Sarajevo III programme, 1988.
1997. Milošević, Predrag. Arhitektura u kraljevini Jugoslaviji (Sarajevo 1918-1941) (Architecture in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia [Sarajevo 1918-1941]). Foča: Prosvjeta, 1997.
1998. Mujezinović, Mehmed. Islamska epigrafika Bosne i Hercegovine (Islamic epigraphics of Bosnia and Herzegovina), bk. I. Sarajevo: Sarajevo-Publishing, 1998.
2007. Sarić, Mesud. Kako je urbanistički uragan dohak’o sarajevskoj zelenoj dolini (How the urbanistic hurricane swept through Sarajevo’s green valley). Sarajevo: Videoarhiv – biblioteka “Hamdija Kreševljaković,” 2007.
2007. Janković, Živorad. Muhamed Kadić – život i djelo (Muhamed Kadić – his life and work). Sarajevo: Academy of Sciences and Arts of BiH, Bosniac Institute Foundation Adil Zulfikarpašić, 2007.
2008. Decision designating the architectural ensemble of the housing complex at Džidžikovac in Sarajevo as a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 29 January to 5 February 2008.
2008. Decision designating the Pension Fund building in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 26 May to 2 June 2008.
2008. Kadić, Emir. Arhitekt Reuf Kadić i počeci moderne arhitekture u Bosni i Hercegovini (Architect Reuf Kadić and the beginnings of modern architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina). Sarajevo: Emir Kadić, 2010.
2012. Decision designating the historic mixed-use Čokadži Sulejman Vakuf building in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo in November 2011.
(1) Translator’s note: this is described in the original as a “neboder” or skyscraper, but the term “high-rise” seems more appropriate for a building with only seven or eight storeys.
(2) Ferhat-bey was born into the Christian family of Vuković-Desisalić, and built the Ferhadija Mosque in 1561/1562. Alija Bejtić, Ulice i trgovi Sarajeva, Sarajevo: Muzej grada Sarajeva, 1973, 374
(3) Alija Bejtić, op. cit, 1973, 374
(4) M. Mujezinović, Islamska epigrafika Bosne i Hercegovine, Knjiga I, Sarajevo: Sarajevo-Publishing, 1998, 183
(5) Mesud Sarić, Kako je urbanistički uragan dohak’o sarajevskoj zelenoj dolini, Sarajevo: Videoarhiv – biblioteka “Hamdija Kreševljaković”, 2007, 81, 75
(6) At the time it was being built, Ferhadija St. was known as Prijestolonasljednika Petra (Crown Prince Petar) St, the name having been changed in 1928. Alija Bejtić, op. cit, 1973, 374
(7) The Kadić brothers, pioneers of modernism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, both trained in the mid to late 1920s in Prague, where modernism was at its apogee, but the influence of the Czech cubist school was also making itself felt. Živorad Janković, Muhamed Kadić – život i djelo, Sarajevo: Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine, Bošnjački institut Fondacija Adila Zulfikarpašića, 2007, 35-37
(8) Various authors, Graditelji Sarajeva, Sarajevo: Radio Sarajevo III program, 1988, 479
(9) Predrag Milošević, Arhitektura u kraljevini Jugoslaviji (Sarajevo 1918-1941), Foča: Prosvjeta, 1997, 134.
(10) For more on the life and work of the brothers Muhamed and Reuf Kadić, see the decision designating the architectural ensemble of the housing complex at Džidžikovac in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 29 January to 5 February 2008.
(11) Reuf Kadić, the younger of the two, began his studies in Prague in 1927 and completed them in 1934. His elder brother, Muhamed, began his studies in 1926 but completed them only in 1939. The reason for their taking so long to complete their studies was politically-motivated: the authorities confiscated Reuf’s passport, while Muhamed was banned from studying in Prague from 1933 to 1398. Emir Kadić, Arhitekt Reuf Kadić i počeci moderne arhitekture u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo: Emir Kadić, 2010, 16, 17; Ž. Janković, op. cit, 2007, 21, 22
(12) E. Kadić, op. cit, 2010, 32, 33
(13) Ž. Janković, op. cit, 2007, 44, 45. Though some suggest that Reuf Kadić was merely Muhamed's co-designer, in the case of the design for the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf (Mekteb) it is almost certain that Reuf was the sole designer. Muhamed was in Prague from the autumn of 1938, completing his interrupted studies in late 1939. It is hard to believe that while doing so he could simultaneously have been actively involved in the design and execution of the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf (Mekteb) building.
(14) E. Kadić, op. cit, 2010, 51
(15) His brother Muhamed was involved as co-designer in developing the design for the Čokadži hajji Sulejman Vakuf building (Ž. Janković, op.cit., 2007, 51 – 52), but at that time Muhamed had still not obtained his formal qualifications as an architect, graduating in Prague only in 1939, when the building was already completed. Muhamed’s revolutionary spirit had led to his being banned from studying in Prague from 1933 to the autumn of 1938. Ž. Janković, op.cit., 2007, 21, 22.
Another particularly fine building is that of the Hovadža Kemaludin Vakuf (mekteb), from which it is still possible to learn how to interpolate the new into a matrix already bearing the patina of age and in so doing to enhance the aesthetic and architectural level of the existing [townscape]. Zlatko Ugljen, foreword. E. Kadić, op.cit, 6, 7.
(16) During his first period (1926-34), while still a student, Reuf returned frequently to Sarajevo, working for GP “Rad.” His finest designs date from his second period (1935-41). His third period was that of World War II, when he escaped to Varaždin, working there for the Zubić construction company. During his fourth period (1945-50), he executed a number of major designs for Herzegovina, as well as producing other major designs for housing and public buildings in Sarajevo jointly with his brother Muhamed. His fifth period (1951-74) began when he gave up his job at the Provincial Design Authority and began teaching at the Secondary Civil Engineering School in Sarajevo. During this period he produced only a few minor designs. E. Kadić, op. cit, 2010, 27-45
(17) E. Kadić, op. cit, 2010, 47. Two of the remaining four major designs by Reuf Kadić, solo or as co-designer, have already been designated as national monuments: the historic Pension Fund building in Sarajevo at a session held in Sarajevo from 27 May to 2 June 2008, and the Čokadži Sulejman Vakuf mixed-use building in Sarajevo at a session held in Sarajevo in November 2011.
(18) In his designs for housing, Reuf Kadić was one of a number of architects who, while designing in the modernist spirit, insisted that man is the measure of all things and of everything required for a well-ordered home, and that the living space should be suited for work, relaxation, entertainment and comfort. In buildings of this kind, the design process was from the inside, of which the exterior was the result. P. Milošević, op. cit, 1997, 134.
(19) The tenants cooked on built-in stoves with gas ovens, connected to the city gas supply. Account by tenant Fatima Talić, whose family moved into the building in 1942 – Sarajevo 16 December 2010
(20) The Ramiz patisserie moved to the old part of the city, and is now on Gazi Husrevbegova St., on the corner known as Slatko čoše (“sweet corner”).
(21) Some tenants removed the solid-fuel stoves and built-in ovens in the kitchen on their own initiative.
(22) The building is entered through a glazed double-valved metal door of 170cm x 220cm.
(23) The glazed entrance doors to the commercial premises measure respectively 90 x 300 cm and 100 x 300 cm.
(24) The staircase is 120 cm wide
(25) This does not include the glazed loggias of 5.50 sq.m.
(26) Here too glazed corner loggias and cantilevered jutties were used above the ground floors. This other feature, which Reuf Kadić used for the first time on the Islamic Community’s Pension Fund building (see decision designating the historic building of the Pension Fund [corner of Marshal Tito and Hamze Hume St.]in Sarajevo as a national monument, adopted at a session of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments held in Sarajevo from 27 May to 2 June 2008), is clearly inspired by the jutties of the traditional Bosnian house, and was often used later. Also typical of him are the rows of large windows letting plenty of light into the rooms. He skilfully and economically made the most of the very limited space available, admirably fitting it into the setting. The clean lines and the use of a new material, green tiles on the façade, are further features of this building. E. Kadić, op. cit, 2010, 51
(27) With the exception of the fourth floor, where there are no east windows, only the cantilevered jutty to the west
(28) Letter from the Institute for the Protection of Monuments under the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sport ref. 07-40-4-4499-1/10 of 2 December.2010.
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