![]() Responding to the intricacies of their environment, Yugoslavia's architects developed a unique postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from greater modernist approaches elsewhere. Photo: Valentin Jeck, 2016, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art The Uniqueness of Yugoslav Architecture Photo: Valentin Jeck, 2016, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art / Right: Milan Mihelič, S2 Office Tower, 1972-78, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Left: Svetlana Kana Radević, Podgorica Hotel, 1964-67, Podgorica, Montenegro. In 1956, the country defined the "Right to Residence", enabling the working man one of the most important conditions of life - a roof over one's head. ![]() ![]() Welcoming the arrival of socialism as a chance to "redress the ills of life in capitalism," Yugoslav modernist architecture changed the housing policy to reject the institution of investors. The country also advanced urbanization and building efforts beyond its borders, most notably in other Non-Aligned countries in Africa and the Middle East. In 1961, Tito became the leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, which did not relate to any major power bloc and "advocated tolerance and peaceful coexistence between the rival systems", further spearheading a "third way".Īt the same time, the government undertook rapid modernization at home with a range of building efforts with an aim to grow the economy, improve the daily lives of Yugoslav citizens, and engage with the diverse cultures in the region. Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, the country evaded the simple Cold War dichotomy. Initially founded on the Soviet model in 1945, it broke with Stalin's politics only three years later, reforming its political system as a specific version of "humane", decentralized and democratized socialism. Re-established by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia led by Josip Broz Tito and Yugoslav Partisans who were the largest anti-fascist resistance movement in occupied Europe, post-war Yugoslavia was a country with great sociopolitical complexity. Photo: Valentin Jeck, 2016, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art Post-War Yugoslavia and Its Complexities ![]() For the first time, the remarkable creations of Yugoslavia’s leading architects will be introduced to the international audience.īranko Žnidarec, Hotel Adriatic II, 1970–71, Opatija, Croatia. ![]() Titled Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, it will bring together more than 400 drawings, models, photographs and film reels drawn from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museum across the Balkan region. A major new survey of the architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia will soon be on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This remarkable body of work has sparked recurrent international interest, yet a rigorous interpretative study never materialized in the United States until now. A manifestation of the radical pluralism, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself, it represents the most important architectural heritage of the 20ht century in the former Yugoslav countries. Although part of a larger cultural phenomenon, the Yugoslav architecture remains unique in the context of design approaches in Europe and beyond. ![]()
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