Toward a concrete utopia
Subtitle: architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980
By: Martino Stierli, Vladimir Kulić ; with a photographic portfolio by Valentin Jeck ; and essays by Tamara Bjažić Klarin [and 16 others]
Contributors: Kulić, Vladimir, author; Jeck, Valentin, photographer; Bjažić Klarin, Tamara, contributor; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781633450516
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Designs and plans; Architecture; Modern Architecture
Description: 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. 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. 'Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980' introduces the exceptional work of socialist Yugoslavia's leading architects to an international audience for the first time, highlighting a significant yet thus-far understudied body of modernist architecture, whose forward-thinking contributions still resonate today.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 15, 2018-January 13, 2019.

Includes map on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178).
Table of contents: title: Networks and crossroads : The architecture of socialist Yugoslavia as a laboratory of globalization in the Cold War  -- Martino Stierli; title: Building brotherhood and unity : Architecture and federalism in socialist Yugoslavia  -- Vladimir Kulić; title: City building in Yugoslavia  -- Jelica Jovanović and Vladimir Kulić; title: Unity in heterogeneity : Building with a taste for structure  -- Luka Skansi; title: The reconstruction of Skopje  -- Vladimir Deskow, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski; title: Toward an affordable arcadia : The evolution of hotel typologies in Yugoslavia, 1960-1974  -- Maroje Mfduljas; title: Yugoslav architecture across three worlds : Lagos and beyond  -- Lukasz Stanek; title: Housing in socialist Yugoslavia  -- Tamara Bjăzić Klarin; title: Gender and the production of space in postwar Yugoslavia  -- Theodossis Issaias and Anna Kats; title: Memorial sculpture and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia  -- Sanja Horvatin̆cić; title: Architecture, destruction, and the destruction of Yugoslavia  -- Andrew Herscher; title: Generals̆tab, Belgrade  -- Vladimir Kulĭc; title: Mos̆a Pijade Workers' University (Rans), Zagreb  -- Tamara Bjăzić Klarin; title: "Architecture of Bosnia and the way to modernity"  -- Mejrema Zatrić; title: Yugoslavia pavilion at Expo 58, Brussels  -- Anna Kats; title: Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade  -- Vladimir Kulić; title: Partisan Memorial Cemetery, Mostar  -- Matthew Worsnick; title: Revolution Square, Ljubljana  -- Martina Males̆ĭc; title: Kiosk K67, Slovenia  -- Juliet Kinchin; title: Cultural Center/Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Skopje  -- Vladimir Deskov, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski; title: Split 3, Split  -- Luka Skansi; title: Goce Del̆cev Student Dormitory, Skopje  -- Vladimir Deskov, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski; title: S̆erefudin White Mosque, Visoko  -- Mejrema Zatrić; title: National and University Library of Kisovo, Pristina  -- Arber Sadiki; title: City Stadium Poljud, Split -- Matthew Worsnick.