Saving Motel Plitvice
An amateur photographer’s quest to preserve the history of an iconic building.
An amateur photographer’s quest to preserve the history of an iconic building.
The K67 Kiosk is a symbol of Yugoslavia. Once ubiquitous in its thousands, only a few hundred units remain around the former country, many in various state of disrepair, and a handful of others around the world. Particularly over the past decade, the Kiosk has been experiencing a revival of sorts.
Yugoslavia may no longer appear on any physical maps, but it lives on as a cultural project. The lost country’s material and cultural production inspires people to make art and products. These are their stories.
From July 2018 to January 2019, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980.
Sanja Horvatinčić, PhD, a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, applies a bottom-up, heritage-from-below methodology to analyze Yugoslav WWII monuments and modernist architecture.
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