Hardcover
Yugoslavia’s forgotten concrete monuments: Brutal beauty, shattered dreams, mapped.

$57.27

  • Hardcover

    208 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2018

Check Delivery Options

Summary

The first ever spomenik guidebook, with over 75 examples alongside map references and information on why they exist and who built them.

Spomenik—the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for ‘monument’—refers to a series of memorials built in Tito’s Republic of Yugoslavia from the 1960s-1990s, marking the horror of the occupation and the defeat of Axis forces during World War II. Hundreds were built across the country, from coastal resorts to remote mountains. Through these imaginative forms of …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780995745537
ISBN-10:0995745536
Author:Donald Niebyl, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, FUEL
Publisher:FUEL Publishing
Imprint:FUEL Publishing
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:208
Release Date:1 September 2018
Weight:658g
Dimensions:26mm x 169mm x 209mm
A-Format
B-Format
Spomenik Monument Database by Donald Niebyl - ISBN: 9780995745537
169 × 209 mm
C-Format
A4
mm / in
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Niebyl is punctilious in laying out the particulars of the design and construction of these structures, whose uncanny forms create a kind of visual “vocabulary of the revolution.”

A new publication that brings together more than 80 awe-inspiring Brutalist monuments, exploring each one’s historical value, design, construction and current status.–Milly Burroughs “AnOther Man”
Niebyl is punctilious in laying out the particulars of the design and construction of these structures, whose uncanny forms create a kind of visual “vocabulary of the revolution.”– “Metropolis”

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.