- Architecture in Russia before, during and after Stalin In London for “The Center Cannot Hold” conference, we had the opportunity to meet Vladimir Paperny, author of Architecture in the Age of Stalin, and to revive in a conversation with him our interest on the Russian avant-garde and the fate of modernist urbanism under and after Stalin. Here you find some of his answers regarding: the […]
- Power and Architecture The Power and Architecture season opens on June 10th at Calvert 22 Foundation in London. The program focusing on utopian public space and the quest for new national identities across the post-Soviet world includes a conference, a series of exhibitions and workshops, and digital curated content on The Calvert Journal. Re>centering Periphery will be part of the program. Oginoknauss […]
- 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.
- 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 […]
- Berlin Mitte
- Modernism in-between (…) then, Yugoslav culture was not entirely open either functioning inside a systemic “membrane” that filtered the exchange with the outside world. Similarly, Yugoslavia’s position between the “three worlds” of the Cold War was not symmetric either. The chief reference points of exchange shifted at first from East to West and then only slightly back […]
- Svijet oko nas Children encyclopaedia first published in Yugoslavia in 1960.
- Spomenik, Kosmaj The monuments (spomenika) that Tito commissioned to artists and architects to commemorate events of the Second World War are one of the most capturing outcomes of a modernist idea of Yugoslavia. These works translate in concrete gestures the aspiration to settle a national identity and commemorate traumatic history without nationalist rhetoric, revering the past while translating […]
- New Belgrade Day 3- Here come the tough guys… At the other extremity of Novi Belgrade from the historical centre, Bloks 61, 62, 63 are among the most extreme neighbourhoods of the city. Long transversal strips of high rise buildings connect two main bulevars. Pedestrian elevated floors are separated by the garages at the bottom level Between […]