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Suburban Constellations
One of the images of the cover of the recently published book Suburban Constellations comes from our Dom Novogo Byta film. The book in fact contains a photographic essay by ogino:knauss about the Khodinskoe field in Moscow, where we shoot the final images of the Muscovite episode of R:CP. Suburban Constellation is a book and a […]
2013-12-29
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Jean-Louis Cohen / Modernism and periphery
November 2010, working on a spot for Moskonstruct we shortly interviewed via Skype the architecture historian Jean Louis Cohen, one of the major experts of modernism and the curator of the recent exhibition of Le Corbusier at MOMA. Few questions about Narkomfin are published in the incoming Dom Novogo Byta DVD. We plan an extensive interview […]
2013-10-05
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Svijet oko nas
Children encyclopaedia first published in Yugoslavia in 1960.
2013-10-04
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Spomenik, Kosmaj
The monuments (spomenika) that Tito commissioned to artists and architects to commemorate events of the Second World War are one of the most capturing outcomes of a modernist idea of Yugoslavia. These works translate in concrete gestures the aspiration to settle a national identity and commemorate traumatic history without nationalist rhetoric, revering the past while translating […]
2013-09-24
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New Belgrade
Day 3- Here come the tough guys… At the other extremity of Novi Belgrade from the historical centre, Bloks 61, 62, 63 are among the most extreme neighbourhoods of the city. Long transversal strips of high rise buildings connect two main bulevars. Pedestrian elevated floors are separated by the garages at the bottom level Between […]
2013-09-17
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New Belgrade
Day two. Of old and new spaces, displaced and replaced people. New and old typologies of public space reflected. One of the few places in Novi Belgrade to have a name, aside from a number. Blok 28 is called Televizorke, because the windows look like TV sets from the 60’s. The long strips between the […]
2013-09-17
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New Belgrade
An exercise in urban reconnaissance, Belgrade September 4-7, 2013. Day one. From water and sand to concrete. Laying the groundwork for next episode of R:CP, we did a 3 days survey in Novi Beograd. We focused our attention on public space as the starting point to develop an investigation on the city. Public space in […]
2013-09-15
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Beograde dobro jutro
Sava has split Belgrade into left and right The left is, as its own name says – new, modern, progressive The right is – right, old and conservative. In the right Belgrade is the railway station, in the left is the airport. In the left are new students – in the right old faculties. In […]
2013-09-14
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Sprawling Detroit
An aerial view of Detroit’s suburbs shot by our fellow Nicola “Teach” Guarneri in 2008. The mainly suburban development pattern of Detroit challenges our project with a quite different configuration from those encountered in most of the cities visited before. The typical relationship between center and periphery is reversed in this location by a core […]
2013-09-01
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Times Square Blues
Talking about centre / periphery relations, Times Square is probably the most central space in the world. It is at the centre of New York City, it is at the centre of the global spectacular entertainment industry, at the centre of the american economy and its cultural domination over the world. Times Square is a […]
2013-08-26