Architectonics of the National Library of Kosovo

This book consists of four main chapters. An architectural thesis conducted by Rilind Cocaj, author, as part of his doctoral research at Università IUAV di Venezia, within the architectural composition spectrum. The National Library of Kosovo in Pristina, designed by Croatian architect and theoretician Andrija Mutnjaković, was conceived in 1971. Its project is based on compositional principles that reflect cultural trends and movements active in Yugoslavia in the 1960s and 1970s, with intense ties and relations to European and international examples. Concentrating on the National Library of Kosovo as Neo-Avant-Garde, a megastructure, a biourbanistic center, and a center of an ideal city, this book deepens the knowledge of the compositional principles and authentic approach developed by Andrija Mutnjaković in this internationally often-neglected but original and highly creative seminal work. These architectural theses will be followed by the original preliminary project designed by architect Andrija Mutnjaković and the recent photographs by Luka Mjeda, which are presented as a follow-up to the ongoing conservation project of the National Library of Kosovo.