Retro Avante-Garde Buildings from the Former Yugoslavia
In the 1960s and ‘70s, former president Josip Broz Tito commissioned a collection of monuments to be built as an homage to WWII battlegrounds and where concentration camps once existed.
Some of the sculptors responsible for the beauty and innovation of the edifices include Jordan and Iskra Grabul, Vojin Bakić, Dušan Džamonja, Miodrag Živković. Its architects were Bogdan Bogdanović and Gradimir Medaković.
Symbolic of the history, the structures were designed to personify the strength, loyalty and confidence of the Socialist Republic. Although the buildings have long been abandoned, their symbolic meanings are found within its sharp, futuristic concrete architecture and conception.
Photo credit: Jan KempenaersPhotos via [arch daily]
