A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak

This paper discusses the circumstances of the construction and architecture of the villa of James W. Wiles at Temišvarska 12 on Senjak, which was built between 1925 and 1926 according to the project of engineer Slobodan Krajcer. Conceived in the style of Academicism, it was realized as a representat...

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Main Author: Tutić Ognjen
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Published: Zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture grada Beograda 2024-01-01
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description This paper discusses the circumstances of the construction and architecture of the villa of James W. Wiles at Temišvarska 12 on Senjak, which was built between 1925 and 1926 according to the project of engineer Slobodan Krajcer. Conceived in the style of Academicism, it was realized as a representative city villa at a time when the establishment of Dedinje, Topčidersko Brdo and Senjak as residential areas with highlevel family dwellings was still in its infancy. Special attention has been paid to the fact that the villa was built for James W. Wiles, a professor from the University of Cambridge, who worked as a lecturer in English language and literature at the University of Belgrade. In the interwar period, Wiles stood out for his activities in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as the first translator of Petar Petrović Njegoš's Gorski Vijenac (The Mountain Wreath) into English. The owner of the villa on Senjak, which was given the moniker 'Cambridge', belonged to an interwar culture of pronounced Serbian-British friendship, and strove to create and strengthen cultural ties between the two nations, being bestowed with the Order of St. Sava by the royal couple King Alexander I and Queen Maria for his efforts.
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A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
Nasleđe
james w. wiles
senjak
villa
serbian-british cooperation
the mountain wreath
title A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
title_full A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
title_fullStr A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
title_full_unstemmed A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
title_short A tale to be chanted and told: James W. Wiles' Villa Cambridge on Senjak
title_sort tale to be chanted and told james w wiles villa cambridge on senjak
topic james w. wiles
senjak
villa
serbian-british cooperation
the mountain wreath
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