![]() ![]() ![]() Providing housing for approximately fifty thousand new residents, the massive undertaking was praised internationally for its communal and public space and its integration into the existing terrain,” said MoMA about the Facebook video. It combined megastructure housing blocks with careful attention to pedestrian streets, which were conceived as a forum for urban life, and a mixture of spaces for living, work, and leisure. “Built in the 1970s, Split 3-an expansion of the Croatian city of Split-was one of the last large-scale urban planning schemes in Yugoslavia and one of its most ambitious and successful. On August 24, 2018, the official MoMA Facebook teased a short video clip of one of Croatia’s most famous ‘large-scale urban planning schemes in Yugoslavia’ – Split 3. Toward a Concrete Utopia includes more than 400 drawings, models, photographs and films from various municipal archives, private collections and museums. 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,” writes the MoMA about the exhibition on their official website. “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. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 will be on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through January 13, 2019.The current exhibition at the museum, titled Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, introduces ‘the exceptional work of socialist Yugoslavia’s leading architects to an international audience for the first time’. It was truly a wonderful experience, even if so much was in my imagination through the artifacts. This article only scratches the rough, hardened surface of the wealth in this exhibition. Despite these challenges, I hope the countries of the region will recognize and preserve the legacy of their modernist period for years to come. ![]() The “Skopje 2014” initiative, for example, is both farcical and tragic. Photographer Valentin Jeck has travelled around the region of former Yugoslavia to capture images of its brutalist architecture for MoMA's Toward a Concrete Utopia exhibition. But they do face continued challenges to their survival, including maintenance and a push to return to more “traditional” forms. Many of the architectural works in this exhibition did survive the wars. This is a cautionary tale as we watch the plague of nationalism rising around the world, including in the United States. Sadly, the Yugoslavian experiment ultimately failed, with country breaking apart and the entire region plunging into extreme nationalism and devastating wars in the 1990s. The curators of MoMA 's recently opened exhibition about the architecture of former Yugoslavia have chosen their favourite pieces from the show, including Kenzo Tange's masterplan for Skopje. Installation view of Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 15, 2018–January 13, 2019. Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 19481980, will present examples of the distinct style that emerged in the state, which occupied the Balkans region of Central and. ![]()
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