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Constructing the Third Way: Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia

Photo: Paviljon 1, Belgrade Fair, Belgrade, Serbia. Architect: Milorad Macura. Engineer: Milan Krstić

Constructing the Third Way: Architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia is a collection of photographic and textual essays on Yugoslav architecture from the 1950s to the 1980s. It is structured around architectural typologies characteristic for this country's unique brand of socialism, which differed considerably from that in the communist bloc.

Yugoslav socialism strongly identified with modern architecture. Architects were well informed of international developments but they also aimed at reinterpreting the general tenets of modernism according to their own social and cultural context. The book traces the complex interplay between the reception of international influences and the creation of regional architectural identities.Bogdan Bogdanović that developed a unique form-language free of overt symbols of ideology. 

The examples include the post-earthquake reconstruction of the Macedonian capital of Skopje and the unique mix of architectural styles and trends produced by the aid that came from both the East and the West; an attempt to develop a regional modernism for Bosnia by transforming principles of Le Corbusier’s architecture and the surrealist-influenced war memorials.