page_title: Konstantin Jovanović
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Konstantin Jovanović / Life / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontal view of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in Sofia Български: Изглед отпред на Народното събрание на България в София
context_page_description: Konstantin Jovanović was a Serbian and Bulgarian architect known for providing the original designs of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and National Assembly of Serbia buildings.
context_section_description: Jovanović commenced his career as an architect in Vienna, though he was most active in the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria. His architectural style was said to draw heavily from that of German architect Gottfried Semper (1803–1879), under whom he studied in Zürich.
  Jovanović arrived in the Bulgarian capital Sofia in 1880 or 1881 at the invitation of Bulgarian Minister of Education Konstantin Josef Jireček and remained in the country for several years. The First Sofia High School for Boys building, the first building of Sofia University and the Lom high school building were constructed to his design. Jovanović also created the first and basic design of the Neo-Renaissance National Assembly of Bulgaria building, the construction of which began on 4 June 1884.
  In Serbia, he was active from the mid-1880s to the 1920s. His first projects in the Serbian capital were the private houses of lawyer Marko Stojanović and Dragomir Radulović. He also designed the original National Bank of Serbia edifice, one of the best examples of Neo-Renaissance architecture in the country, based on the architecture of Italian Renaissance palaces. The National Bank of Serbia building is regarded by some as Jovanović's most important work. Jovanović provided the original design for the National Assembly of Serbia in 1891. In 1901, a variant of his solution by Jovan Ilkić won the competition for the edifice's architectural design.
  Besides being a prominent architect, Jovanović was also an artist, architectural theorist, photographer and writer. He died in Zürich, Switzerland in 1923.
caption: Neo-Renaissance National Assembly of Bulgaria building
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