![]() MoMA PS1 Visit MoMA PS1 in Queens Free for. ©Mihajlo Čanak, courtesy of MoMAĬan’t wait that long? Take a stroll through Zagreb’s socialist architecture. Member Gallery Talk: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980. ![]() ![]() For those unable to reach the New York MoMA, the organisers will be going live on Youtube in just 166 days. Organised by Martino Stierli along with guest curators Vladimir Kulić and Anna Kats the title leaves wide scope for the exhibition. The nickname comes from the angled appendages on the sides of the buildings, which points them up towards the sky like rockets. A comparable nostalgia for a socialist past overlays the groundbreaking exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980, now on. There is the vast Mamutica, or mammoth, with its pinkish columns Super Andrija, a magisterial building inspired by Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation and the Rakete, three rocket shaped towers that were modified after the Skopje earthquake to withstand further tremors. 'Concrete Utopia' will cover the work of architects such as Bogdan Bogdanović, Juraj Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radević, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Milica Šterić.Ĭroatia has its fair share of socialist architecture, the finest examples can be found south of the river Sava in Novi Zagreb. 400 drawings, models, photographs, and film reels from various sources will be on show at the MoMA for the seven-month duration of the exhibition. MoMA's Toward a Concrete Utopia exhibition presents the architecture of Yugoslavia The exhibition was organised by MoMA's chief curator of architecture and design Martino Stierli, Florida. MoMAs toward a concrete utopia brings together 400 works of socialist yugoslav architecture. ![]() The exhibition focuses on the socialist monoliths of Yugoslavia, Šerefudin's White Mosque in Bosnia, and the architecture built in Skopje after the 1963 earthquake. ‘Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980’ opens in July at the New York MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art will explore the architecture of the former Yugoslavia with Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980, the first major US exhibition to study the. ![]()
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