Toward a Concrete Utopia

Nimble, continuously surprising... looking beyond its traditional geographic infatuations, diving into fields too little researched and putting its standard narrative of 20th-century art and design under constructive pressure.--Jason Farago New York Times Above all, the exhibition reminds us that design can be a tool of social progress.--Justin McGuirk New Yorker This exceptionally designed show succeeds in distilling the architectural legacy of a country best known, in and outside of it, for falling apart.--Roko Rumora Hyperallergic Astonishing structures surge with unchecked emotions of agony, sacrifice, loss and rememberance.--Julie V. Iovine Wall Street Journal A manifestation of radical diversity, hybridity, and idealism that characterized the Yugoslav state iself.--Blouin Art Info The great achievement of Yugoslavia was in being able to keep collectivism and individualism in some kind of balance.--Justin McGuirk The New Yorker From housing blocks to a rural mosque, ponder marker of unity and individualism from a now-vanished postwar building culture.--Art Newspaper These otherwordly constructions were instrumental in shaping Yugoslavia's national identity.--Joanna Fu Hypebeast Highlights architecture's role in creating a common history and collective identity of a socialist state.--Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou Designboom Abundance of beautifully hung and arranged drawings, photographs, and models of striking, and in some cases downright bizarre, buildings and monuments.--Josephine Minutillo Architectural Record Highlighting a significant yet thus-far understudied body of modernist architecture, whose forward-thinking contributions still resonate today.--The Architects Newspaper