Where does revolution happen?

"I love this example, because its architecture expresses an inter-generational collaboration. At the time, when they designed it, the architects were very young, around 30. On the construction site they met old and experienced masonry masters.

Post-War Poland

12/10/2019
"Poland goes to the polls on Sunday, and it's those Catholic churches I think of when I think about the choices the country faces. They have become the site of political propaganda for the Law and Justice party. The pulpits of these magnificent churches have become the platform from which the party rails against what it sees as Poland's social ills."

2020 Poland

12/10/2019
"When I first saw these, I would try not to think about the anti-semitic imagery on the murals and the lurid anti-abortion posters at the doorways. The people who built the gothic cathedrals weren't woke either, I could tell myself."

"The Law and Justice party now faces re-election, and the churches have been their foremost propagandists"

An official crusade against LGBT rights is reportedly preached in churches, which have also been accused of encouraging Islamophobia, antisemitism and anti-migrant sentiment. From being a sanctuary against an oppressive state in the 1980s, these buildings are now incubators of a paranoid cult.

India's Evolution vs. China's Revolution

04/03/2013
"In short, urbanism in China is clean, sanitised and exciting; India’s is grimy, raw… and exciting. Undoubtedly, China’s “ruthless” ambition to build the future comes with caveats, but so do India’s bureaucratic, fragmented ambitions. In both places, construction standards are low, workmanship is poor (and so are the working conditions), air quality is bad and the architecture leaves a lot to be desired. But that is the price of progress and simply to attempt such a huge range of urban transformations"

Soviet Architecture + Socialism

05/06/2020
"Typification, one of the most recognizable traits of Soviet architecture, extended from housing estates to public buildings, as the designs for cosmic circuses, concrete theatres and opera houses were centrally developed in Moscow, only to be implemented in the Far North."




"On a different note, the book also serves as a depiction of architecture in an extreme environment"


"The {book} strives to paint a more comprehensive picture of this architectural heritage, still widely misunderstood and firmly rejected by the general public. The work of Zupagrafika helps disseminate the complicated beauty of post-war architecture, with its ideals and shortcomings, thus creating the premises for a new understanding of this period in architecture history."

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