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The suburbs of central and Eastern Europe in all their concrete, monolithic splendour are captured here by Zupagrafika and local photographers.

A photographic insight into the Soviet-era architecture of one of the most extreme, little-known and vast territories on earth.A photographic insight into the Soviet-era architecture of one of the most extreme, little-known and vast territories on Earth. From the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Circle, Concrete Siberia by Zupagrafika contains over 100 photographs exploring the post-war modernist districts of Siberia''s urban centres and the quotidian lives of their inhabitants.

The second volume of Zupagrafika's widely acclaimed Eastern Blocks continues the photographic survey of concrete suburbs across the former Eastern Bloc. Stretching from Ukraine to Georgia and sweeping through the Baltic Sea to the Balkans, the book captures the socialist-era architecture that reshaped the urban landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II: from modernist grand designs and brutalist monoliths to the often-overlooked prefabricated panel housing estates and their distinctive typologies. Eastern Blocks II features over 200 photographs by Zupagrafika founders and a foreword by architectural historian Kateryna Malaia. Organised into 10 chapters, each focusing on a city - Chisinau, Kaliningrad, Lviv, Minsk, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Tbilisi and Vilnius - the book offers valuable insights into post-war modernist architecture in each region.

Slovenian architect Sasa J. Machtig, and similar systems, including the Polish Kami, the Macedonian KC190, and the Soviet ''Batyskaf'', could be found everywhere from bustling city squares to socialist-era housing estates throughout the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia. They served as fast food joints, farm egg vendors, funeral flower shops, newsstands, car park booths, and more. Containing over 150 captivating photographs featuring more than 100 kiosks found from Ljubljana to Warsaw and from Belgrade to Berlin - Kiosk by Zupagrafika provides previously unseen documentation of the remaining modernist booths that are slowly fading from the urban landscape.

Breaking free from twenty years of fascist rule, Post-war Italy became fertile ground where brutalist architecture was able to flourish. Stark new concrete forms reshaped Italian urban landscapes with bold landmarks; from the iconic Torre Velasca in the centre of Milan to the controversial Vele di Scampia housing complex on the periphery of Naples. This playful and engaging book leads readers around the Italian brutalist architecture, informing curious explorers about its features, failures, and successes, with a special focus on the public housing estates, such as ''Lavatrici'' in Genoa, ''Corviale'' in Rome, ''Vele di Scampia'' in Naples, and Rozzol Melara in Trieste. The first section of Brutalia includes photographs and detailed descriptions of featured buildings and their histories. The second section contains five pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble. All you need is glue! Featuring a foreword by Italian architect and writer Alessandro Benetti.

This period is known as the Polish School of Posters, through some of its iconic film and theatre affiches created between the 1950s and the late 1980s. These were displayed in the streets of the former Polish People''s Republic using an outstanding piece of urban equipment: the poster column, which is still functional to this day. The book is divided into two parts: following the foreword by art historian Katarzyna Matul, the first part includes ten detachable posters by such legendary designers as Jan Lenica, Henryk Tomaszewski, Wojciech Fangor, Wiktor Gorka, Maria ''Mucha'' Ihnatowicz, Witold Janowski, Jerzy Flisak and Jakub Erol. The second part allows readers to press out and build a mini Polish poster column - all you need is glue! Contains 10 detachable Polish posters that can be easily pulled out and framed (poster size: 24 x 34 cm); a press-out cardboard poster column + mini posters to paste onto the model column (height: 20cm)

The Tenants by Zupagrafika is a unique photographic essay on mass housing estates erected in the former Eastern Bloc and the people who inhabit them. From Berlin to Norilsk, and all the way through Almaty to Tallinn, the album portrays the inhabitants of over 40 housing complexes in 37 different cities, holding paper models of their homes, while sharing the stories of the lives they lived in the prefab panel blocks.

This hardcover volume is the long-awaited follow-up to Zupagrafika''s 2017 Brutal East and allows readers to learn about the brutalist and modernist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia, and build some intriguing edifices. Brutal East II includes chapters with photographs and texts providing a valuable insight into the featured buildings and their history, as well as a foreword by Alexander Ostrogorsky. The book also contains nine pre-cut and pre-folded models to press out and assemble with easy-to-follow instructions.

Model of the Centre National de la Danse building in Paris, designed by Jacques Kalisz, to cut out and assemble. The kit also includes information on the architect, the year of construction of the building and its location.

Illustrated paper cut-out model of the Grade II listed building designed by Richard Seifert. The kit includes information about the architect, the year of construction of the building and its location.

Brutal East playfully explores and reconstructs some of the most controversial Brutalist edifices built behind the Iron Curtain between 1960 and the1980s. Includes information on the building and easy-to-follow instructions.

Nine paper cut-out models celebrating the controversial urban post-war architecture of the former German Democratic Republic, inspired by the Plattenbau housing estates, the monumental hochhauser and cosmic milk bars.

Illustrated paper cut-out model of the iconic Brutalist tower block by Erno Goldfinger. Includes information about the architect, the year of construction of the building and its location.The Brutal London series by Zupagrafika is a series of paper cut-out models that reconstructs some of the most controversial buildings erected in London in the 1960s and 1970s. Now everyone can build their own version of the Balfron Tower by Erno Goldfinger. Each kit includes a short informative text on the architect, the year of construction and the location of the building.