Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 became. This event is part of Member Gallery Talks. Since July 2018, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has hosted an exhibition exploring the architecture of the former Yugoslavia. A comprehensive review of the Towards Concrete Utopia: Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia 1948-1980 at MoMA, by Yugoslav-born, New York-based, architect and theorist Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss. This event accompanies Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980. We use our own and third-party cookies to personalize your experience and the promotions you see. I would love to see this exhibition and I hope to do exactly that if I’m in New York City before the new year. MoMA, Floor 3 Dive deeper into MoMA’s collection and special exhibitions with free, member-only tours. Photography by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA. The architecture that emerged-from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”-is a manifestation of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself.Īnd here is a panel discussion about the exhibition ( click here if you can’t see the video below):Īrchitecture tells you a lot about a place and what was happening at the time in which it was built. Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia’s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. This article appears in the July 23, 2018, issue of New York Magazine. It’s called, Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, and it runs until January 13, 2019. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980, Museum of Modern Art, through January 13, 2019. A new exhibition on postwar architecture in (the former) Yugoslavia opens up today (July 15) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Toward a Concrete Utopia explores themes of large-scale urbanization, technology in everyday life, consumerism, monuments and memorialization, and the global.
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