From the sculptural interior of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia, to the post-earthquake reconstruction of the city of Skopje based on Kenzo Tange’s Metabolist design, to the new town of New Belgrade, with its expressive large-scale housing blocks and civic buildings, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and modes of production in Yugoslav architecture and its distinct yet multifaceted character. The exhibition includes more than 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museums across the region, and features work by important architects including Bogdan Bogdanović, Juraj Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radević, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Milica Šterić. Toward a Concrete Utopia explores themes of large-scale urbanization, technology in everyday life, consumerism, monuments and memorialization, and the global reach of Yugoslav architecture. TWK Lausanne (V1.5) in use for Toward a Concrete Utopia. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (50) 'The commonsfrom urban public spaces to the various civic, educational, and cultural facilitieshave been subject to shady privatization schemes, reduced to mere real estate,' Martino Stierli and Vladimir Kulic write in MoMA's wonderful Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980.The show will be up starting on Jand will run through January 13, 2019. Janko Konstantinov, Telecommunications Center, 1972-81, Skopje, Macedonia. Work by important architects such as Bogdan Bogdanović, Juraj Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radević, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Milica Šterić will be featured emphasizing the unique range of forms produced in this time period. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016. Stojan Maksimović, Sava Center, 1979, Belgrade, Serbia. MoMA has plenty of reasons to be ashamed, thats for sure, but guilt is an undercurrent instead of an overarching concept of the exhibition, which was organized. MoMA's exhibition will explore themes of large-scale urbanization, technological experimentation, consumerism, monuments and memorialization, and the overall global reach of Yugoslav architecture. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016.Īrchitecture from this period ranges from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist "social condensers" manifesting the radical pluralism, hybridity, and idealism found in the Yugoslav state. Edvard Ravnikar, Revolution Square (today Republic Square), 1960-74, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Including over 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels from various municipal archives, MoMA introduces the exceptional built work of the former country's leading socialist architects. View of IMS Žeželj the construction site. Mihajlo Čanak, Leonid Lenarčić, Milosav Mitić, and Ivan Petrović. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 will be the first major US presentation of the work developed within the country's 45 years of existence. In conjunction with Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980, this evenings discussion expands on three issues central to the exhibit. The Museum of Modern Art has announced their summer exhibition exploring architecture of the former Yugoslavia.
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