Eastern Blocks II: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc
By David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka

This second volume of Zupagrafika’s Eastern Blocks expands the photographic survey of concrete suburbs across the former Eastern Bloc. Stretching from Ukraine to Georgia and sweeping through the Baltic Sea to the Balkans, the book captures the socialist-era architecture that reshaped the urban landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, from modernist grand designs and brutalist monoliths to the often-overlooked prefabricated panel housing estates and their distinctive typologies.

Format: Hardback
Size: 170 × 240 mm
Pages: 248

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About the Book

Featuring over 180 photographs by Zupagrafika founders David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, with additional contributions by local photographers and a foreword by architectural historian Kateryna Malaia, Eastern Blocks II is organised into 10 chapters, each focusing on a city – Chișinău, Kaliningrad, Lviv, Minsk, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Tbilisi and Vilnius – offering valuable insights into post-war modernist architecture in each region.

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Name: Eastern Blocks: Volume II
Brand: Zupagrafika
SKU: 23136
Price: 24.00 GBP
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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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