Brutal posters

20 Brutalist Pull-Out Posters

Author: Zupagrafika

ISBN: 9788396326881

Publisher: Zupagrafika

Softcover

56 Pages

Size: 29 x 38 cm

Language: English

Released: 2025

#Architecture #Illustration

This large-format book brings together a striking collection of illustrated pull-out posters by Zupagrafika celebrating the ‘antiheroes’ of postwar modernist architecture across the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia – from neglected brutalist hotels and robot-shaped government buildings to monolithic concrete tower blocks and vast prefabricated housing estates – structures that have often been overlooked but have recently found their way into pop culture.

The result of over a decade of obsessive documentation by David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, this series captures the raw, geometric patterns of brutalist and modernist landmarks – some of them now demolished – that reshaped the cityscapes of Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century. Opening with a foreword by architectural historian Anna Cymer, Brutal Posters includes 20 detachable prints, creating a unique visual archive of this vanishing architectural legacy.

Contains:
20 detachable posters that can be easily removed.
Poster size: 27 x 38 cm

Brutal Posters includes: Wrocław (Plac Grunwaldzki Housing Estate), Berlin (Ernst-Thälmann-Park Housing Complex), Kraków (Hotel Forum), Poznań (Orła Białego Housing Estate), Kaliningrad (The House of Soviets), Kyiv (Obolon Tower Block), Sofia (Druzhba 1 Housing Estate), Prague (Jižní Město), Belgrade (Karaburma Tower Block), Warsaw (Za Żelazną Bramą Housing Estate), Saint Petersburg (Novosmolenskaya Housing Complex), Ljubljana (Dravlje Housing Estate), Dombay (Hotel Amanauz), Tbilisi (‘Sky-Bridge’ Housing Complex), Chișinău (‘Romanița’ Residential Tower Block), Riga (Pļavnieki Housing Estate), Budapest (Újpalota Water Tower House), Ternopil (‘Alyaska’ Housing Estate), Minsk (‘Honeycomb’ Residential Tower Block), Norilsk (Microrayon 2).