Ljiljana Bakić (née Vuković) was born 1939 in Belgrade and graduated from Arhitektonski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu (the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade) in 1962. In 1964, she started working at the company „Vrtna Arhitektura“ (“Garden Architecture”) where she stayed for one year. In 1965 Ljiljana Bakić and her husband Dragoljub Bakić moved to Kuwait, where they designed residential buildings. While Dragoljub Bakić worked for the Yugoslav company “Energoprojekt” under the management of the architect Milica Šterić, his wife Ljilana Bakić was employed at a local Kuwaiti architecture company, called „Said Breik & Marwan Kalo Consulting Engineers“. After giving birth to two daughters, Ljilana Bakić took some time off for parental leave. In 1970 she continued her architecture career. This time she started working together with her husband at the company „Energoprojekt“, where she was hired permanently after a successful competition entry for which she assisted at the company.

During her career Ljilana Bakić worked in several countries like Japan, Switzerland, Poland and Venezuela. In Zimbabwe she designed several buildings, for example in collaboration with her husband the Sheraton Convention Center and the hotel „Sheraton“ in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. From 1994 to 2001, the couple mostly resided and worked from Harare.

Bakić was a member of the Academy of Architects of Serbia. She was also the author of the book “Anatomy of B&B Architecture”, a monograph detailing her and her husband’s careers, as well as the socio-political elements that influenced their architectural works. Furthermore she wrote articles about architecture for professional magazines. Bakić retired in 2001, and spent the rest of her life in a home she designed together with her husband in Belgrade’s Višnjička neighbourhood. Ljiljana Bakić died on the 9th of july 2022 in Belgrade.