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Eastern Europe: The Latest Architecture and News Follow Tag Brutalist Belgrade: Through the Eyes of Alexey Kozhenkov March 16, 2023 Brutalism is a deeply dividing architectural style - a.
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The Cantilever City Brutalist Architecture in (Soviet) Cinema Vol. 113 (March 2021) by Esen Gökçe Özdamar Brutalist architecture prevailed in post-war England in the 1950s and spread, during the 1960s and 1970s, to Asia, North America and the Soviet bloc.
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In Eastern Europe, Brutalist buildings face particular challenges in winning advocates, according to Marie Kordovská. She is fighting to save the Hotel Thermal in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.
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At one end of the spectrum we have the concrete monstrosities that litter the cityscapes of many Central and Eastern European countries, erected in uniform, pre-fabricated rows to house the populace while said countries were behind the Iron Curtain under strict Soviet control.
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Brutalist architecture is a movement that flourished from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, and was adopted widely throughout Eastern Europe. It is characterized by a bold and confrontational style that combines concrete and rough surfaces, intended to express the roughness of life. The term brutalism originates from the French term for raw concrete.
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Whilst emerging into prominence in 1950s Great Britain, the most iconic examples of this architectural style are arguably found in Eastern Europe - particularly in the territory formerly known.
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To showcase Central and Eastern Europe 's "unnoticed" brutalist architecture, Zupagrafika have shot and put together more than 100 photographs in a book titled 'Eastern Blocks', inviting.
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Like much Brutalist architecture, this bold design represents an update on the famous axiom of architectural modernism that form should follow function.. In the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc (those countries in Eastern Europe emerged as soviet vassal states after the Second World War, with communist rulers heavily influenced by the USSR.
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Brutalist architecture across the former Eastern Bloc is inextricably associated with the totalitarian regimes that marked the history of this part of Europe during the last half of the 20th century.
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An architecture of self-interrogation in Europe and of proud defiance in postcolonial equatorial nations never sat comfortably with America's capitalist triumphalism. For many critics, Brutalism.
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The visual aspects of Brutalism quickly evolved into a consistent style—massive, elaborate concrete structures that embraced their size, verticality, and building material. As Barbara A. Campagna explains, The use of concrete and steel allowed the biggest buildings and complexes ever envisioned to be built.
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The New York Museum of Modern Art dedicated an exhibition to photographs to Brutalist architecture in 2018, in effect rehabilitating a style of building that many would rather see disappear.
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The brutalist buildings found in Eastern Europe were a way of showing off, and Bratislava became the symbol of this notion. The results? Some outstanding and strange-looking buildings, such as this upside-down pyramid-shaped Radio Station, Slovak Radio. The building highlights the Bratislava skyline but is still very much overlooked by tourists.
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Brutalist architecture is a style of building design developed in the 1950s in the United Kingdom following World War II. With an emphasis on construction and raw materials, the aesthetic evolved.
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But in Eastern Europe, which contains possibly more Brutalist structures than any other region, the style is particularly contested, a reflection of a turbulent recent history. Of course,.
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In Eastern Europe there are numerous buildings presenting this style, now we will focus on five examples to better understand the common ground despite the territorial, cultural and designer differences that created them.