# Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980

**Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/)
**Published on:** 2018-07-15
**Categories:** architecture, europe, exhibition, international-style, modern-architecture, modernism, moma, museum-of-modern-art, new-york, uncategorized, urbanism, yugoslav-wars, yugoslavia
**URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/toward-a-concrete-utopia-architecture-in-yugoslavia%2C-1948-1980

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A new exhibition on postwar architecture in (the former) Yugoslavia opens up today (July 15) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It’s called, Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, and it runs until January 13, 2019. Here is a bit more about the exhibition:Situated between the capitalist West and the socialist East, Yugoslavia’s architects responded to contradictory demands and influences, developing a postwar architecture both in line with and distinct from the design approaches seen elsewhere in Europe and beyond. The architecture that emerged—from International Style skyscrapers to Brutalist “social condensers”—is a manifestation of the radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state itself.And here is a panel discussion about the exhibition (click here if you can’t see the video below): [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2S0bBTHu-8&w=560&h=315] Architecture tells you a lot about a place and what was happening at the time in which it was built. I would love to see this exhibition and I hope to do exactly that if I’m in New York City before the new year. Image: MoMA

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