image of the book Modernism In-between

Text: Maroje Mrduljaš, Vladimir Kulić
Photography: Wolfgang Thaler

publisher: jovis, Berlin
Hardcover
21 x 25 cm
272 pages, ca. 304 color images. englisch
ISBN 978-3-86859-147-7
2012
design: metaphor

Modernism In-Between: The Mediatory Architectures of Socialist Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia is certainly the most miraculous of the “defunct countries” of the recent past. The texts and images in this book can conjure the power of the vision of a modern culture that was not monolithic, but open, generous, challenging, and inspiring; it had all the qualities that provincialism lacks, rejects, and wants to erase.
 Ákos Moravánszky, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
 
Lucid and compelling, written in a uent style, this meticulously researched book, with its full array of beautiful photographs, is a landmark study of a place and time that produced stirring and original architecture. What one sees in these pages is revelatory, a still mostly unknown building scene of striking power and freshness.
Christopher Long, University of Texas at Austin

out of print. an ebook version will soon (spring 2025) be published.