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Eastern Blocks

Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc

‘Sleeping districts’ of Moscow, 

Plattenbauten

 of East Berlin, modernist estates of Warsaw, Kiyv`s

Brezhnevki

: although these are home to the vast majority of city dwellers, post-war suburbs of central and eastern Europe have been invisible for decades.

Eastern Blocks

 is a photographic journey through the cityscapes of the former Eastern Bloc, inviting readers to explore the districts that became a playground for mass housing development after WW2, including objects like houses ‘on chicken legs’, soviet ‘flying saucers’ or hammer-shaped tower blocks.

The book contains over 100 photographs taken by Zupagrafika, with special contributions by local photographers, showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of 

Moscow, East Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv 

and

Saint Petersburg. 

Divided into 6 chapters, includes a foreword by writer and journalist Christopher Beanland, index of architects, orientative maps and informative texts on the featured cities and constructions.

Released: April 2019

Now available in our online shop > 

bit.ly/2KIW2MV

From May in selected bookshops around Europe

Author: 

Zupagrafika

Contributors:

David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka (Zupagrafika): photography, texts and edition

Alexander Veryovkin: commissioned photography

Balázs Csizik: commissioned photography

Christopher Beanland: foreword

Hardcover  |  144 pp  | 

  ISBN: 9788395057434

Copyright for all images © Zupagrafika, 2019

‘The Iron Curtain was understood in the West 

as The Concrete Curtain. Everything behind it was

perceived as mass produced and grey’

– from the foreword by Christopher Beanland

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