ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the evolution of building techniques and building industry in Serbia since the time of the liberation from the Ottomans in the early 19th to the first decades of the 20th century. Changes that have occurred during the 19th century in the political, economic and social areas influenced a gradual transformation of Serbia and its growth into the modern state. Builders from the northern regions were important for the evolution of the entire building activities in Serbia of that time since they transferred their building experience directly to the native master-masons. Building crafts in Serbia reached a significant improvement at the end of the 19th century in comparison to the period after the Second Serbian Uprising. The traditional spatial schemes were preserved until the middle of the century, even for the buildings which had disposition on the plot and shape of the plan typical for the settlements in Vojvodina.
