page_title: Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić / Career
caption_attribution_description: Српски / srpski: Kursalon, Banja Koviljača
context_page_description: Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić was a Serbian and then Yugoslav architect who worked in the interwar period. Born in Serbia, Bončić-Katerinić was the first woman to obtain an engineering degree in Imperial Germany.
context_section_description: Bončić was hired by the Yugoslav Ministry of Construction starting in the 1920s. Until the outbreak of the Second World War, she constructed mostly public buildings in modern-day Serbia and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 1931, she helped construct the Banski Dvor cultural center in Banja Luka. Banski Dvor is today a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  She was the architect of several structures in Belgrade. In 1935, she built the "Queen Mary Women Teachers Training School" and co-designed the Faculty of Law building with architect Petar Bajalović. She also worked on the reconstruction of the "Ankera" home located on Balkanska street. She is known for having designed Belgrade's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in 1939. The structure is free standing and has an unadorned facade.
  Bončić also built part of the spa baths in Banja Koviljaca. She designed a hospital in Despotovac and a high school in Smederevo. She built several elementary schools throughout Serbia. During the Second World War, she did minor contracts in Petrovac for the Ministry of Construction and retired in 1945.
caption: Koviljača Spa
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