Husref Redžić

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.

The Husref Redžić Award is an annual award given by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo.

Historiography

Selected works Istorija arhitekture: stari vijek, Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika, Sarajevo, 1969 Studije o islamskoj arhitektonskoj baštini, "Veselin Masleša" publishing, Sarajevo, 1983 Islamic art, "Jugoslavija", Beograd, 1967 Srednjovjekovni gradovi u Bosni i Hercegovini, Sarajevo Publishing, Sarajevo, 2009 Neka iskustva obrazovanja arhitekata za revitalizaciju arhitektonske baštine, Beograd, 1980 Srednjovjekovni utvrđeni gradovi u Bosni i Hercegovini: naučnoistraživački projekat, Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Arhitektonsko-urbanističkog fakulteta, Sarajevo, 1975 Istorija književnosti i umjetnosti Arapa, Turaka i Perzijanaca : naučnoistraživački projekat, Orijentalni institut, Sarajevo, 1979 Stanovanje u srednjovjekovnim utvrđenim gradovima Sokocu, Bilaju i Komotinu : naučnoistraživački projekat, Institut za arhitekturu i urbanizam Arhitektonsko-urbanističkog fakulteta, Sarajevo, 1975 Per la conservazione della Moschea di Gazi Husrev-Beg a Sarajevo, Quaderni dell'Istituto di Storia dell'Architettura / Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento di Storia dell'Architettura, Restauro e Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici, 1987 Le monument historique, son ambiance et son utilisation actuelle, Monumento per l'uomo, Padova, 1972 Neka iskustva revitalizacije starih gradskih jezgara u Bosni i Hercegovini : quelques expériences de renouvellement des vieux noyaux des villes en Bosnie et Herzegovine, Zbornik zaštite spomenika kulture / Jugoslovenski Institut za Zaštitu Spomenika Kulture, 1975