More than 180 Photographs Chronicle Brutalist Suburbs and Public Buildings in 'Eastern Blocks II'

More than 180 Photographs Chronicle Brutalist Suburbs and Public Buildings in 'Eastern Blocks II'

In the second half of the 20th century, “brutalism and the shall-we-call-it ‘marketplace modernism’…when it appeared in the East, was always about spectacle,” Zupagrafika founders David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka say in a blog post about Eastern Bloc suburbia. Brutalist housing estates and public buildings of the post-war Soviet era were built on a massive scale, often from concrete and prefabricated panels, to accommodate growing populations a…