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Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern EuropeIn the western Balkans, the collapse of the socialist economic system in Yugoslavia and Albania has given rise to extensive informal building activity that represents a new form of urbanisation.
The question is: how far do such urban transformations indicate patterns of future development for European cities in general?
The exhibition uses examples from projects in Belgrade, Zagreb, Kotor, Prishtina and Tirana to illustrate the way architects, artists, urbanists and activists are dealing with these rapid new transformation processes.
The outstanding yet hardly known buildings of socialist modernism in Yugoslavia are compared and contrasted with contemporary architecture.
Balkanology opens a new field of architectural discourse in Switzerland - the little-known architecture of the post-socialist period and the result of unregulated, uncontrolled urban planning in the countries of South Eastern Europe.
The exhibition focuses on the impact of recent socio-political changes on architecture and urban planning.
more: Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe
September 18, 2008 | Viewed 22,054 time(s)
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