SOS Brutalism: the campaign saving unloved architecture in the New East and beyond
A former post office in Macedonia. Image: Yeowatzup under a CC licence.
A former post office in Macedonia. Image: Wolfgang Thaler under a CC licence.
A block of flats in Moldova. Image: Kramer under a CC licence.
A block of flats in Moldova. Image: Kramer under a CC licence.
The ruined interior of a brutalist building in Croatia. Image: Kramer under a CC licence.
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising. Image: Eryn Blaire under a CC licence.
Museum of the Slovak National Uprising. Image: Eryn Blaire under a CC licence.
A church in Bosnia. Image: Kramer under a CC licence.
Producers' Cooperative Radelkis in Hungary. Image: Eryn Blaire under a CC licence.
A cable car station in Sochi, Russia. Image: Peter Methven under a CC licence.
23 February 2018
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Katie Marie Davies
A campaign to save the threatened gems of brutalist architecture has launched a new exhibition celebrating the hulking “concrete monsters” that dominate post-Soviet skylines.
#SOSBrutalism has a growing database of over 1000 brutalist buildings, including tens across the New East. It serves as a fundraising and campaign platform to protect and preserve threatened examples of the controversial 20th century movement, many of which are crumbling from neglect of face demolition. The team released a global survey in November 2017, documenting 120 iconic brutalist buildings from across the globe.
#SOSBrutalism is now on show at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, until 2 April. For more information, click here.
