Bosnian architect, art historian, orientalist and medievalist
Husref Redžić (1919 – 29 April 1984) was a Bosnian architect, historian of architecture, specifically Islamic and medieval art and Islamic and medieval architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia.
Education.
Husref Redžić graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Belgrade, in Belgrade.
Career.
After finishing education, he first worked as a designer, after which he became a head of the National Design Bureau in Sarajevo, at the time a notable and the only institution of its kind in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As soon as the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sarajevo was establishment in 1949, he turned to teaching, and already in 1950, he was appointed as assistant lecturer on the History of Architecture at the Faculty's Department of Architecture, later the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo. Here he was an expert-associate and teacher at the institution for 35 years, becoming senior lecturer in 1954, and from 1960 to his death a full professor.
He worked outside the country as well, with a faculties such as ones in Rome, Paris, Brussels and Turin.
His focus was the architecture in rehabilitation and conservation of historic buildings and cultural and historical heritage, putting emphasis on training architects in respect to preserving architectural heritage. He noted that the greatest threat to this heritage comes from architects and town planners themselves, because of untrained and inappropriate use of procedures and inadequate knowledge.
Legacy.
Redžić was a reputable expert in his field in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yugoslavia and abroad. He was an editor-in-chief of the Faculty's "Proceedings", a head of the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering, later the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo. He held a Chair of the History of Art and Architecture and the Revitalization of the Built Heritage. He was a dean and a member of the Faculty's board and of the University of Sarajevo.
Redžić advocated the idea of bringing architecture closer to ordinary citizens through the media, but that a good working relationship must first be established between architects and the media in order to draw the attention of journalists to their mistakes in writing about architecture and its trends and norms, especially concerning conservation and preservation.
The "Husref Redžić Award" is an annual award given by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo.