About the Book

This playful and engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist and modernist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.
Brutal East vol. II includes chapters with photographs and texts providing a valuable insight into the featured buildings and their history, as well as a foreword by Alexander Ostrogorsky. The book contains nine pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble with easy-to-follow instructions. This hardcover volume is the long-awaited follow-up to Zupagrafika’s 2017 Brutal East.

Contains 9 press-out cardboard models to assemble:
Moscow > ‘The House on Chicken Legs’
Tbilisi > ‘Sky-Bridge’ Housing Estate
Kyiv > Hotel Salute
Skopje > Studentski Dom ‘Goce Delčev’
Berlin > Haus der Statistik
Budapest > Havanna Housing Estate
Minsk > ‘Kukuruza’ Housing Complex
Dombay > Hotel Amanauz
Buzludzha > The Monument House of the Bulgarian Communist Party

MEET THE PUBLISHER

Name: Brutal East Vol. II
Brand: Zupagrafika
SKU: 18835
Price: 25.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Zupagrafika

Zupagrafika is an independent publisher, author and graphic design studio established in Poznań, Poland, in 2012. The founders are designer and photographer David Navarro, and writer Martyna Sobecka. Zupagrafika celebrates modernist architecture, design and photography in a unique and playful way.

Over the last decade, David and Martyna have created, illustrated and published award-winning books and model kits exploring the post-war modernist and brutalist architecture of the former Eastern Bloc and beyond. Their publications have featured contributions by such architects and writers as: Norman Foster, John Grindrod, Barnabas Calder, Christopher Beanland, Konstantin Budarin, Anna Cymer or Florian Heilmeyer.

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