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building simple in modern
Serbian-Byzantine style or neo-Byzantine. The Second Gymnasium for Girls was designed without unnecessary decoration, the white facade and the rounded corners clearly show the influence of modernism and Milica Krstić's application of the principles of Bauhaus and Modernism. The building has been declared a
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Milica Čolak-Antić Krstić lived at 7 Silvija Kranjčevića Street, in a house that she and her husband designed and built in 1937. She spoke French, Spanish, English, and German. Throughout her life, she was active in various associations sharing and exchanging with her colleagues about ways to improve
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In 1936 she designed the First
Gymnasium for Boys at 65 Dušanova street. In contrast to her previous building she went for a more bare modern style. In 1989, The First Gymnasium for Boys was also declared a cultural heritage. In 1938 she was promoted head of the Department for public buildings and in
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In 1933 she designed the Second
Gymnasium for Girls, the same school that she attended as a young girl, at 31 Queen Natalia street, today the Electro-technical Gymnasium Nikola Tesla, it was constructed in place of the Girls College and the building of the State Council. She created a sumptuous
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architect, she is considered one of the most important female architects in Serbia and
Yugoslavia during the first half of the twenty-first century. She spent her twenty-six-year career employed by the State, at a time when women could only be public employees, working for the ministry of civil
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Like most women in architecture during those years, Krstić was assigned educational architecture. The challenges was to design, on a low budget, a healthy, functional, and well-designed environment, for students and teachers. She designed
Elementary Schools for small villages around Serbia
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Ministry of Construction. The architectural department was back then the largest architectural practice in the country. Her colleagues were
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