Zgrada stare telefonske centrale

This guide to the Old Telephone Exchange in Belgrade follows Branko Tanazević, a young architect with a fixation on medieval Serbian ornament, and the commission he won in the early nineteen hundreds: Serbia's first building made purely for telephones. It asks what a machine hall for a modern network should look like, and why he reached back to monastery walls for the answer. Best heard from the street corner below the dome.