Toward a concrete utopia : architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 / Martino Stierli, Vladimir Kulić ; with a photographic portfolio by Valentin Jeck ; and essays by Tamara Bjažić Klarin [and sixteen others].

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stierli, Martino, 1974- (Author)
Kulić, Vladimir (Author)
Corporate Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution)
Other Authors: Emerson, Stephanie (Editor)
Jeck, Valentin (Photographer)
Bjažić Klarin, Tamara (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : The Museum of Modern Art, [2018]
Subjects:
Architecture > Yugoslavia.
Architecture, Modern > 20th century > Designs and plans.
Architecture.
Yugoslavia.
Genre:
Designs and plans.
Physical Description:xxxviii, 184 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 31 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Networks and crossroads : The architecture of socialist Yugoslavia as a laboratory of globalization in the Cold War / Martino Stierli
  • Building brotherhood and unity : Architecture and federalism in socialist Yugoslavia / Vladimir Kulić
  • City building in Yugoslavia / Jelica Jovanović and Vladimir Kulić
  • Unity in heterogeneity : Building with a taste for structure / Luka Skansi
  • The reconstruction of Skopje / Vladimir Deskow, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski
  • Toward an affordable arcadia : The evolution of hotel typologies in Yugoslavia, 1960-1974 / Maroje Mfduljas
  • Yugoslav architecture across three worlds : Lagos and beyond / Lukasz Stanek
  • Housing in socialist Yugoslavia / Tamara Bjazĭć Klarin
  • Gender and the production of space in postwar Yugoslavia / Theodossis Issaias and Anna Kats
  • Memorial sculpture and architecture in socialist Yugoslavia / Sanja Horvatincĭć
  • Architecture, destruction, and the destruction of Yugoslavia / Andrew Herscher
  • Generals̆tab, Belgrade / Vladimir Kulic ̆-- Mos̆a Pijade Workers' University (Rans), Zagreb / Tamara Bjazĭć Klarin
  • "Architecture of Bosnia and the way to modernity" / Mejrema Zatrić
  • Yugoslavia pavilion at Expo 58, Brussels / Anna Kats
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade / Vladimir Kulić
  • Partisan Memorial Cemetery, Mostar / Matthew Worsnick
  • Revolution Square, Ljubljana / Martina Males̆ic ̆-- Kiosk K67, Slovenia / Juliet Kinchin
  • Cultural Center/Macedonian Opera and Ballet, Skopje / Vladimir Deskov, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski
  • Split 3, Split / Luka Skansi
  • Goce Delcĕv Student Dormitory, Skopje / Vladimir Deskov, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, and Jovan Ivanovski
  • S̆erefudin White Mosque, Visoko / Mejrema Zatrić
  • National and University Library of Kisovo, Pristina / Arber Sadiki
  • City Stadium Poljud, Split / Matthew Worsnick.