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Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948?1980
Toward a Concrete Utopia Architecture in Yugoslavia 19481980 Author:Vladimir Kulić, Vladimir Deskov, Ana Ivanovska Desakova, Andrew Herscher, Jovan Ivanovski, Jelica Jovanović, Anna Kats, Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Juliet Kinchin, Rem Koolhaas, Marta Vukotić Lazar, Martina Malešič, Maroje Mrduljaš, Arber Sadiki, Luka Skansi, Lukasz Stanek, Matthew Worsnick, Mejrema Zatrić In Yugoslavia?s ?Third Way? architecture, Brutalism meets the fantasticalSqueezed between the two rival Cold War blocs, Yugoslav architecture consistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a founding nation of the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslavia became a major exporter of modernist architecture to Africa and the Middle East in a postcolonia... more »l world. By merging a variety of local traditions and contemporary international influences in the context of a unique Yugoslav brand of socialism, often described as the ?Third Way,? local architects produced a veritable ?parallel universe? of modern architecture during the 45 years of the country?s existence. This remarkable body of work has sparked recurrent international interest, yet a rigorous interpretative study never materialized in the United States until now.Published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the architectural production of Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980, this is the first publication to showcase an understudied but important body of modernist architecture. Featuring new scholarship and previously unpublished archival materials, this richly illustrated publication sheds light on key ideological concepts of Yugoslav architecture, urbanism and society by delving into the exceptional projects and key figures of the era, among them Bogdan Bogdanovic, Zoran Bojovic, Drago Galic, Janko Konstantinov, Georgi Konstantinovski, Niko Kralj, Boris Maga?, Juraj Neidhardt, Jo?e Plecnik, Svetlana Kana Radevic, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, Milica ?teric, Ivan ?traus and Zlatko Ugljen.« less