Have you seen these works by Joan Miró?
“Fuck it, I’m saying it. EcoBrutalism is my favorite architectural style by far”
Breuninger department store. Freiburg, March 2017.
Even the holy can look evil
Awesome new, old pictures from 1988! Avraám Moiséevič Miléckij: Hotel Salute, Kiev, Ukraine, 1976–1984 Photos: Bernhard Wanker
The Rozzol Melara complex is one of the biggest and most controversial social housing facilities ever built in Trieste … Rozzol Melara was inspired by Le Corbusier’s La Tourette and, with its large circular voids, is reminiscent of the architecture of Louis I. Kahn. The complex was designed with four main slabs arranged as a large square resting on a hill. … The complex was completed in 1983 when some of the social models at the base of the project were already obsolete, which is why some common spaces (shops and indoor walkways) re- mained incomplete at first and this contributed negative impressions of the building. Excerpt from Giovanni Damiani’s article in: SOS Brutalism: A Global Survey. Catalog DAM + Wüstenrot Foundation, Zurich (Park Books) 2017
The 20th-century architecture of Yugoslavia was the result of a concerted national effort to modernize and unify.
Sampson House. London, January 2016.
Breuninger department store. Freiburg, March 2017.
Eccentric, idiosyncratic, original. None of these adjectives does an adequate job of describing the Cosmic House — the London home of American-born architect, theorist and landscape artist Charles Jencks, who was a tireless vocal champion of postmodernism. Jencks died in 2019, and last fall, with little fanfare, his house opened to the public with limited […]
An epic landscape of mammoth concrete structures; collectively known as the Barbican complex and a fine example of Brutalist architecture
City Hall, Ruse, Bulgaria, built in 1985 Architect Alexander Georgiev Barov (c) BACU #socialistmodernism #_ba_cu
Belgrade, Socialist Republic of Serbia.
It is simple to make a collage, and it can be done quickly, it is fun to make a collage and at the same time it is considered suspicious...
This year's Open House weekend (September 20-21) promises a sneak peek inside over 800 different buildings, many of which aren't regularly open to the public, including the Cheesegrater, the Neasden Temple and even 10 Downing Street
Present & Correct blasts away mid-week ennui with his favourite creative discoveries from the last seven days
Image 1 of 15 from gallery of MoMA to Host Exhibit Celebrating the Radical Brutalist Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia. Berislav Šerbetić and Vojin Bakić. Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija. 1979–81. Petrova Gora, Croatia. Exterior view. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, 2016
Tbilisi National Scientific Library, Tbilisi, Georgia, built in 1985. Architect: G. Bichiashvili © BACU @_ba_cu #_ba_cu . . Map location: http://socialistmodernism.com/ . . Add new sites:...
Hotel Zlatibor in Užice, Serbia. Completed in 1981 by architect Svetlana Radević. Socialist architecture in the former Yugoslavia.
