ZAGREB, February 4, 2018 – New York’s Museum of Modern Art has recently announced an exhibition about most distinctive examples of Yugoslav socialist architecture in the period from 1948 to 1980.
The exhibition, titled “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980”, will be staged in mid-July and run through mid-January 2019.
The exhibition “explores themes of large-scale urbanization, technology in everyday life, consumerism, monuments and memorialisation, and the global reach of Yugoslav architecture,” according to a press release on the museum’s web site.
“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 Sterić.”
“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,” reads the announcement of the exhibition.
