An architect and urban planner, who was born in Zagreb on 15th October 1901. He comes from the prominent family of artisans and merchants, from German province Wurtenberg. He studied architecture at the Vienna Acadmey, with one of the most important modern architects of the first generation of the twentieth century, professor Peter Berens.
After graduation, he continues to work at Berens Berlin atelier, and in 1936 he went to Paris and began to work in the atelier at the famous Le Corbusier atelier. In those years he was participating in many urban and architectural projects realizes throughout Europe. After a long period spent in the European capitals and wandering in search of live, in 1939 he comes to Sarajevo, and stays until the end of his life.
To such a decision, a great contribution goes to the Slovenian-Bosnian architect Dušan Grabrijan. The book “Architecture of Bosnia and voyage to modern” was the result of their long friendship, which contains the most beautiful chapters on the architecture of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. He worked in Zenica from 1939 until the beginning of World War II, he sets new residential architecture style, for working families, with a slogan: “upon small thing lies the world”.
His work on these creations is the synthesis of his knowledge acquired in Le Corbusier atelier and independent research of Bosnia housing culture. Normally as every artist, although recognized in public he often encountered resistance from the community, suppressing his intense desire to work, create, and even without tangible benfits. His dougther Tatjana, also professor of the faculty of Architecture in Sarajevo in her memories of her father says no one knew how to take from him all that he wanted to give, not the architecture, or urban planning, or students, or publicity, or even citizens of this city.
His most important notes are: works on the ski house at Trebević, Faculty of Philosophy, Chemical-Physical Institute, Hose of Scouts (Dom Izviđača) in Sarajevo, the urban core solution at Marindvor in Sarajevo, Parliament building of Bosnia and Herzegovina which by its simplicity and elegance is the greatest monument to this great man.
Thank to Jelica Karlić Kapetanović, Teaching assistant to the Professor Najdhart, his work is being totally recorded, work of this great architect is being totally recored. Since he used to walk all his live, in the early July of 1979 he went on foot to the hospital. Academician, professor, architect, and especially the man – Juraj Najdhart died in on 13th of July 1979, at the military hospital in Sarajevo.
He was buried at the Bare cemetery in Sarajevo.
