A small office on Cara Dušana
Fourteen people, one room with a brick vault, and about eight projects a year.
Vidik started in 2011, when Ana Lazić and Marko Vuković left a large Belgrade practice to work on buildings small enough to follow from the first drawing to the last site visit.
The first job was a two-room extension to a house in Zemun. The client still sends us photos of her garden every spring.
In 2016 we moved into a former bakery on Cara Dušana. The ovens are long gone, but the vaulted brick ceiling is still there, and it is the reason we took the space. Today there are fourteen of us: nine architects, three interior designers, a site engineer and Jelena, who runs the office and knows where every drawing is.
Most of our work is in Belgrade and Vojvodina, with a few houses on the Montenegrin coast and in Croatia. We work in Serbian and English, and we can manage in German.
Three habits we have kept
We sketch by hand first
Every project starts on tracing paper with a soft pencil. It is slower in the first week and much faster after that, because the bad ideas get thrown away before anyone models them.
We go to site every week
Drawings never answer every question. One of us is on site once a week during construction, usually on Thursday mornings, so small problems get solved before they turn into expensive ones.
We say no early
We turn down about half the enquiries we get, usually when the budget and the brief do not match. We would rather say so in the first meeting than six months in.
Who you will be talking to
Ana Lazić
Studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and spent four years at an office in Rotterdam before coming home. Leads design on most of our houses and all of the hotel work.
Marko Vuković
Runs construction and site supervision. He started out on building sites during his studies and still prefers a site meeting to a video call. Licensed by the Engineering Chamber of Serbia.
Cara Dušana 48, second floor
Coffee is on us. Tram 2 stops two minutes away, which is easier than finding parking in Dorćol.