Muhamed Kafić is considered together with his brother Reuf Kadić the pioneer of modern architecture in Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He studied in Prague between 1924 and 1932. This brought him into contact with the new trends in architecture very quickly. Initially, these were Cubist forms, followed increasingly by the forms of classical modernism. He returned to Yugoslavia with this wealth of knowledge. First he worked in the office of Dušan Smiljanić before opening an own office with his brother Reuf in 1940. In 1942 they moved to Dubrovnik, but we do not know why.
His communist convictions allowed him to continue working successfully in the socialist system of Yugoslavia after the end of World War II. He also taught at the Sarajevo Faculty of Architecture. Kadić designed the main railway station in Sarajevo (1947-52).
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Buildings
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Pension Fund building
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vakuf Čokadži Sulejmana
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Housing estate Džidžikovac
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vakuf skyscraper