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Architecture of New Belgrade - Brutalism Decoded
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Novi Beograd
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You'll have a close up on 5 exemplary buildings of Yugoslav socialist architecture, with the art historian guide who grew up in a brutalist block. In 2.5 hours you'll understand 50 years of Yugoslavian utopia.
You’ll discover the buildings for the socialist elites, buildings for socialist business, buildings to impress the Non Aligned comrades and public housing blocks for the classless society: Museum of Contemporary Art, Palace of Federation, Genex Tower, Block 23 and Sava Center.
You'll see how and why the architecture changed from the Soviet-like to modernism to brutalism.
This architecture, gaining international recognition from institutions such as MoMA and Venice Biennale, will te...
Highlights
2 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional Guide
Meeting Points
Departure
Museum of contemporary art
In front of the stairs leading to the main entrance.
Return
Sava Center
Itinerary
1
Museum of Contemporary Art
You'll meet the guide in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art at Ušće. You'll explore its modernist 1960-ies volumes and find out why its precious marble facades contradict the stereotypical expectations from socialist architecture.
20 minutes
2
Park of Friendship (Park Prijateljstva)
This is our spot do touch upon the Non-Aligned Movement of 120 countries. It was founded in 1961 in Belgrade, when the heads of states planted the trees in the Park as the symbol of peace.
15 minutes
3
Palata Srbije
Next, we'll drive by the huge Government Building, a telling monument of an earlier phase of YU politics, a building that experienced the switch away from Stalin while under construction.
4
Belgrade Western Gate
You’ll have a close up of Genex Tower, aka Western City Gate of Belgrade, a 30 floor structure that has won instagrams and hearts of many Belgrade visitors. Built 40 years ago, it was the first smart building in the Balkans and entered the international architecture reviews as a fine example of brutalism.
20 minutes
5
Sava Center
Your final stop is a gigantic congress center, built at the end of 1970s in record times. It was the first building of that sort in this part of Europe. It’s still in function and includes some surprisingly well designed interior solutions that seem fresh even after 40 years.
15 minutes
6
Laza Kostić
Inside the Block no. 23, the most representative public housing project, again in style of concrete expressionism, you'll discover the concept that provided everything for the inhabitants. The apartment buildings, school, the kindergarten, the sport courts, the mini shopping mall. You’ll hear the guide's personal stories of life in the blocks in their golden decades of 60s, 70s and 80s. And the stories of living not so great in 90s.
You'll have a close up on 5 exemplary buildings of Yugoslav socialist architecture, with the art historian guide who grew up in a brutalist block. In 2.5 hours you'll understand 50 years of Yugoslavian utopia.
You’ll discover the buildings for the socialist elites, buildings for socialist business, buildings to impress the Non Aligned comrades and public housing blocks for the classless society: Museum of Contemporary Art, Palace of Federation, Genex Tower, Block 23 and Sava Center.
You'll see how and why the architecture changed from the Soviet-like to modernism to brutalism.
This architecture, gaining international recognition from institutions such as MoMA and Venice Biennale, will te...
Highlights
2 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours and 30 minutes
Offered in English & Italian
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional Guide
Meeting Points
Departure
Museum of contemporary art
In front of the stairs leading to the main entrance.