Significance of the Architect Stanko Kliska for the Improvement of Health Culture in Belgrade during the Period after the Second World War

Acta historiae medicinae, stomatologiae, pharmaciae, medicinae veterinariae

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Summary/Abstract: The architect Stanko Kliska (Snagovo, Bosnia, September 15th 1896 – Belgrade, October 3rd 1969) is a representative of the generation of young intellectuals adopting the Yugoslav idea. His creative work between the two world wars is connected to the city of Zagreb. World War II interrupts Zagreb period of his independent and very successful activity in this city and brings him as a refugee to Belgrade where he stays with his family to live and work till the end of his life. Aft er the public competition in 1950, Stanko Kliska was elected for the associate professor of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, in the subject Social buildings. He takes over lecturing in the group of the professor D. Leko about medical buildings and manages practical work in the same field. With his work Influence of patients’ room on the development of modern hospital he becomes full professor in 1957 in the subject Design of medical buildings, when he was appointed the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. Belgrade period in the work of Stanko Kliska is characterized by numerous projects, some of them realized and some again not. Between them are distinguished: Sanatorium of FNRJ Government (Belgrade 1947-1949); Draft Master Plan and program draft for the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade (1952); Clinic of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Belgrade (1949–1956); General hospital in Zenica (1950); General hospital in Tuzla (1956), etc. His competence, professional courage, consistency and modesty where the reason why he was accepted in Belgrade as a respected architect and professor of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade. Kliska died in 1969 in Belgrade, and three days later was buried in Mirogoj cemetery, Zagreb.

architecture, hospitals, medical institutions, the law on public health institutions, urban planning