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In Yugoslavia’s “3rd Manner” structure, Brutalism meets the fantastical

Squeezed among the 2 rival Chilly Battle blocs, Yugoslav structure persistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a founding country of the Non-Aligned Motion, Yugoslavia turned into a tremendous exporter of modernist structure to Africa and the Heart East in a postcolonial world. Through merging a lot of native traditions and latest world affects within the context of a novel Yugoslav emblem of socialism, ceaselessly defined because the “3rd Manner,” native architects produced a veritable “parallel universe” of brand new structure throughout the 45 years of the rustic’s lifestyles. This exceptional frame of labor has sparked recurrent world pastime, but a rigorous interpretative examine by no means materialized in the US till now.

Published together with a tremendous exhibition at the architectural manufacturing of Yugoslavia among 1948 and 1980, that is the primary newsletter to exhibit an understudied however necessary frame of modernist structure. That includes new scholarship and up to now unpublished archival fabrics, this richly illustrated newsletter sheds mild on key ideological ideas of Yugoslav structure, urbanism and society Through delving into the outstanding tasks and key figures of the technology, amongst them Bogdan Bogdanovic, Zoran Bojovic, Drago Galic, Janko Konstantinov, Georgi Konstantinovski, Niko Kralj, Boris Magaš, Juraj Neidhardt, Jože Plecnik, Svetlana Kana Radevic, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, Milica Šteric, Ivan Štraus and Zlatko Ugljen.