- The future has designed us In Belgrade to prepare the Power and Architecture exhibition, we had the pleasure to be joined by ogino:knauss’ founder member, dj and sound producer Miki Semascus. The exploration of the spatial context was naturally complemented by an investigation of the soundscape that finally took the form of a playlist of great Serbian/ Yugoslav / Balkan […]
- Narkomfin narratives We are honoured to reblog here the essay by Vladimir Paperny originally published in the book O’NFM_6: Narkomfin, edited by Danilo Udovicki-Selb, published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen, 2015, given the kind permission of author, editor and publisher. Apart from being flattered by our film Dom Novogo Byta quoted in it as a source, the piece […]
- Organiziranje, priručnik za delegate Yugoslav third way to socialism provided an important model for heterodox marxist approaches looking for a “socialism without a state”. Henri Lefevbre was among those significantly impressed and inspired by the Yugoslav experience, and the notion of autogestion as expressed in particular by French and Italian movements in the post 68 scenario is strongly influenced by Yugoslav saoumopravljanje.
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- Nova Gorica A walk in Nova Gorica, a new modernist city built after an arbitrary border was traced to divide the territories assigned to Yugoslavia and Italy after WWII. Nova Gorica, which developed in the area previously occupied by the old cemetery of Gorizia, was established in 1948, a few months after the definition of the new […]
- The Pruitt-Igoe Myth One of the most iconic architectural projects of modernity, the Pruitt-Igoe complex in st.Louis. The images of its demolition in 1973 have become the symbol of the passage to the post modern era, according to a famous Charles Jenks’ assertion. We saw the excellent film The Pruitt-Igoe Myth at the Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival. The […]
- Stare Sajmište The urban periphery is a field of conquest and investment. It is the frontier of the advancing city, the front of the urban growth machine. Essential modern means to foster urban development are exhibitions, temporary events, the use of spectacular processes as ice-breaking operations towards new investment and settlement. The invention of modernism is indissolubly […]
- Suburban Constellations One of the images of the cover of the recently published book Suburban Constellations comes from our Dom Novogo Byta film. The book in fact contains a photographic essay by ogino:knauss about the Khodinskoe field in Moscow, where we shoot the final images of the Muscovite episode of R:CP. Suburban Constellation is a book and a […]
- Svijet oko nas Children encyclopaedia first published in Yugoslavia in 1960.
- Beograde dobro jutro Sava has split Belgrade into left and right The left is, as its own name says – new, modern, progressive The right is – right, old and conservative. In the right Belgrade is the railway station, in the left is the airport. In the left are new students – in the right old faculties. In […]