This article features four fragments dedicated to architecture's position within wider context of the socialist housing question. Using the example of housing estates, blocks, and groupings in Belgrade and Vojvodina, the article situates the work of architects within the framework of housing policies, construction statistics, tenant subjectivities, and the house as a desired outcome. The very form of the fragment is theoretically and methodologically grounded in the work of Theodor W. Adorno; that is, it serves to deliberately narrow the broad phenomenon of the housing question to selected themes, and subsequently to enable an in-depth insight into specific projects and realizations. From a wider and more detailed perspective, the article presents a series of housing complexes, such as the Cerak Vinogradi and Kneževac-Kijevo estates in Belgrade, Blocks 22 and 23 in New Belgrade, Block 3 in Bulevar 23. oktobra and Block 2 in the Liman III estate in Novi Sad, as well as parts of the First Local Community of the Bežanijska Kosa estate in Belgrade. The article departs from the assumption that each of the fragments conceals a certain kind of damage that the designers' intentions, due to specific circumstances, have suffered.
Aleksandar Kušić (Wed,) studied this question.