Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 | MoMA LIVE

[@deawill]

Excellent, well done, MoMA! Wish I was in NY to see this!

[@xxxxxsx4040]

Yugoslavia fell apart because of politics and not ethnic reasons. I mean there were ethnic tensions, but that was not as profound as people would like to believe. We could live in a unitary state to this day, were there no external political interests in breaking the thing apart. After the war however, there are ethnic tensions which were never as strong before... regretfully.

[@solar979]

I was born, raised and still live in what was once Yugoslavia. I am not sure that we actually were behind the iron curtain because we had free flaw of people and information. In my home town during socialist period were built the tallest and largest buildings to this day, dozens of skyscrapers and building so huge we call them "The Great Wall of China". Their construction were financed by Yugoslav Army and were populated by the military personnel who were almost exclusively from just one of the ex. Yugoslav federal republics ie. the largest one. Other apartments, not so great in construction quality, were financed by the pyramid scheme and the higher you were in the system the more likely you were to get the apartment to live in (it started collapsing during pre-war period). Today we all spend thousands of euros reconstructing our living spaces to something more human. We also get huge amounts of money from EU funds plus taking loans to insulate our buildings because there is no insulation on our bare concrete walls.

[@manajama]

There will never be similar exhibition at moma about any exyu new countries architecture

[@samokazem125]

It is a shame that this beauty, the "Monument to the Victory of the People of Slavonia" (in Kamenska, Croatia), another fascinating piece of work of the renowned sculptor Vojin Bakić, was destroyed during the last war: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2K1aXytqa5soKc At the time of its opening, it was the largest post-modern sculpture in the world. Like the "Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija" (in Vrginmost/Vojnić, Croatia), which is included in your exhibition (also Vojin Bakić's work), it celebrated the antifascist struggle of the people of those regions and commemorated the civilian victims of fascism and fallen partisans.

[@bibabalaz5711]

Why everything that is just and fair is called utopia.

[@radazah]

Hello from Toronto

[@markosskace514]

Well, this exibition is very late. It would make sense, if it would be prepared 50 years ago, nowadays it only functions as a tool of American imperialist policy.