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Revitalizing the Heritage of Socialist Modernism: BACU’s Online Initiative to Protect Central and Eastern European Architecture

Monument To The Conquerors Of Space Moscow, 1964
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Preserving the monumental yet decaying structures of central and eastern Europe erected between 1955-91 is the mission of the online initiative, Socialist Modernism, created by the Bureau for Art and Urban Research (BACU). With an aim to revitalize this heritage, BACU believes in the significance of these elements which managed to defy some of the ideological requirements of their time, giving the urban space a distinct flavor characteristic of the socialist period. Continue reading »