Dušan Grabrijan (1899–1952) was a

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, architectural theorist and

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. Grabrijan was a student of

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. In Ljubljana, he is known, for example, for the monument to Slovene Modernist poets

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, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn at

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. He came to

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in 1930; there, he spent 20 years of his life working on purpose of architectural improvement of the city of Sarajevo. Also he worked as professor at the Secondary Technical School in Sarajevo, where during the thirties he published a number of works. One of the fields that most attracted him was the Oriental House, adapted to the context of Bosnian culture.

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Dušan Grabrijan
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grabrijan, Dusan 1899 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Slovenian architects Bosnia and Herzegovina architects Yugoslav architects Architects from Sarajevo