The Western perception of the Soviet Union was one of austerity, straight-laced, buttoned-down and under tight control for any signs of unorthodoxy. While this may have been true politically, the same can’t be said for […]
Image 6 of 43 from gallery of Socialist Modernism on Your Smartphone: This Research Group is Raising Funds for a Crowdsourcing Mobile App. Cast in place concrete housing complex, St. Petersburg, Russia. Built 1986-93. Architects: V. Sokhin, V. Sokolov, P. Kurochkin. Photo by Alla Rusu. Image © BACU
The style of architecture, known as Socialist Modernism or Brutalism, was popular in Serbia in the 1970s.
Szell Kalman Ter Metro station, (formerly Moszkva Ter) Budapest, Hungary, built in 1972. Architect: Czeglédi István, Székely László, Czeglédi István. (c) BACU
"Bezanijski Blokovi" Blocks 61, (Bežanija blocks, Officer blocks or Panonian Sailboats), Belgrade, Serbia, built between 1971-73, Architects Darko Marusic, Milenija Marusic and Milan Miodragovic
Imagen 10 de 17 de la galería de Las construcciones del Comunismo fotografiadas por Roman Bezjak. © Roman Bezjak
Leningrad. Hardcover book published by Aurora Art Publishers 1974. Text is in English. Dwelling houses on the Sverdlov Embankment The Red October Concert Hall Gorky House of Culture Dwelling house on the Karpovka Embankment
Музей-панорама "Плевенская эпопея 1877 года" , Плевен, Болгария, 1977, арх. Иво Петров, Пламена Цачева. Музей, расположенный на территории парка им. Скобелева в болгарском Плевене, открылся к 100-летию окончания осады города, что в свою очередь ознаменовало освобождение Болгарии от османского ига.…
Image 2 of 10 from gallery of AD Round Up: Architecture of the Soviets. Photograph by Wikimedia CC User A Kostichev
A selection of some of the most bizarre buildings to survive the fall of the Soviet Union in countries like Croatia, Georgia, and Bulgaria.
Universitätsspital Klinikum 2 Basel (1978) by Suter + Suter Architekten Ralf Streithorst Photography
Minimal Belgrade is my artistic series depicting some of the most prominent pieces of Belgrade’s mid-twentieth century architecture. Often called Socialist Modernism, Soc-realism, Brutalism, Architecture of forced standard etc., the main characteristic of all these astonishing edifices is they will always look not-just futuristic, but as though they were taken from the future and brought to us.
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Image 5 of 43 from gallery of Socialist Modernism on Your Smartphone: This Research Group is Raising Funds for a Crowdsourcing Mobile App. Public utilities building for telephone and postal services, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Built 1966-69. Architect: Vasile Mitreaphoto. Photo by Dumitru Rusu. Image © BACU
Skopje, capital city of Macedonia, is a dream world for lovers of concrete communist architecture. There's nowhere else on Earth like it - and there's a good reason for that.
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Finding the Beauty in Belgrade’s Brutalism The grandiose buildings of mid-century Belgrade are perfectly preserved mementos from the times of Socialist Modernism; Serbian photographer Mirko Nahmijas put the strict symmetry and harsh lines at the forefront of his series Minimal Belgrade. Ripe with brutalist influence, t
A photographic journey through Madrid, deep into Brutalist architecture, a genre maybe not expected and that nevertheless has considerable examples in the Spanish capital.
Image 40 of 43 from gallery of Socialist Modernism on Your Smartphone: This Research Group is Raising Funds for a Crowdsourcing Mobile App. Hotel National, Chisinau, Moldova. Built 1974. Architects: O. Gorbuntov, V. Shalaginov. Photo by Dumitru Rusu. Image © BACU
Tamara Stoffers uses soviet era photos to create optimistic photomontages of soviet citizens, they stay true to the original photographer's intention
Brutalist architecture emerged in the 1950s as a reaction against the lightness and decoration of 1930s modernism. Instead, brutalism focused on the
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