The implementation of the Cooperation Agreement between the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Institute for the Protection of Monuments on one hand and the Faculty of Architecture of Sarajevo on the other began today with an introductory lecture on the elective course of the second year, second cycle “Architectural interventions on buildings and structures of architectural heritage”, given by Prof. Dr. Aida Idrizbegović-Zgonić at the Faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo.

The Agreement is focused on organisation of student and professional workshops, practical teaching with students and field work, and, accordingly, in the previous period, preparations were made and the mode of inclusion of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments in the academic work of the Faculty through practical teaching defined. The introductory lecture was given by prof. Dr. Idrizbegović-Zgonić, who presented the plan of activities in the first semester and introduced the students to the scope of the task and the expected results.

Director of the Institute for the Protection of Monuments, Robert Stergar and expert advisor Azra Tunović presented the practical aspect of the course, which included selection, recording, detection of damage, creation of technical documentation of portals on buildings from the Austro-Hungarian period in Sarajevo, where accelerated deterioration and disappearance were detected. The Institute for the Protection of Monuments will go through all the segments of the restoration process with the students, from detection and description of the condition, through legislative provisions, the creation of graphic and text attachments to the finalisation of the documentation with which restoration work can be started.