Book | Hardcover | 208 pages
Modular architecture | Over 150 photographs
Featuring over 150 kiosks—from Ljubljana to Warsaw, and from Belgrade to Berlin—our new photobook documents the last modernist booths found in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslav countries I Released: May 2024
Book | Hardcover | 88 pages
Photobook featuring architectural press-out models
Explore Hong Kong's public housing from the 1950s to the 1980s with this unique and engaging book featuring captivating photographs and architectural models to press out and assemble I Released: November 2023
Book | Hardcover | 72 pages
Includes 5 press-out models celebrating Italian brutalist architecture
A playful exploration of Italian brutalist architecture, from the iconic Torre Velasca in the centre of Milan to the controversial Vele di Scampia housing complex on the periphery of Naples I Released: June 2023
Book | Hardcover | 208 pages
Landscape architecture | Over 150 photographs
A photographic exploration of Soviet-era playgrounds, featuring rocket slides, earth-shaped climbers and spaceships for young cosmonauts, found in some of the former USSR countries, such as Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan I Released: October 2022
Book | Hardcover | 50 pages
Detachable Polish Posters + Poster Column Model
An interactive art book celebrating the Polish School of Posters, through some of its iconic film, theatre and cultural affiches created between the 1950s and the late 1980s., together with an outstanding urban equipment used to display them - the poster column I Released: April 2023
Book | Hardcover | 112 pages
Photographic essay
A unique photographic essay on mass housing estates erected in the former Eastern Bloc and the people who live in them. From Berlin to Norilsk, and all the way through Almaty to Tallinn, the album portrays the inhabitants of over 40 housing complexes in 37 different cities, holding paper models of their homes, while sharing the stories of the lives they lived in the prefab panel blocks I Released: April 2022
Book | Hardcover | 72 pages
Includes 9 press-out models celebrating the brutalist architecture of Central and Eastern Europe
An engaging journey through the socialist-era architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslavia. Build some of the most intriguing edifices erected in Central and Eastern Europe after WWII, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi, while learning about their history I Released: November 2021
Book | Hardcover | 192 pages
Over 130 photographs
A photographic survey of the Soviet-era monotowns − urban settlements erected around single industries in the hinterlands of the former USSR −; some thriving, others struggling to survive, still others partially abandoned I Released: May 2021
Book | Hardcover | 88 pages
52 illustrations. Includes 9 press-out models celebrating Polish brutalist architecture
A playful exploration of the socialist-era architecture erected in the former Polish People’s Republic. Build your own brutalist and modernist edifices while learning about their place in the history of the PRL I Released: October 2020
Book | Hardcover | 160 pages
Over 100 photographs
A photographic insight into the Soviet-era architecture of one of the most extreme, little-known and vast territories on Earth. From the Ural Mountains to the Arctic Circle, the book contains over 100 photographs exploring the post-war modernist microrayons of the Siberian cities of Novosibirsk, Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Irkutsk and Yakutsk and the quotidian lives of their inhabitants. I Released: May 2020
Book | Hardcover | 44 pages
Contains 164 press-out prefab panels and an illustrated history on mass housing in the former Eastern Bloc
Plattenbau, Panelák, Wielka Płyta, Panelky, Panelház or Панельки: Prefabricated panel blocks go by different names around the former Eastern Bloc, but no matter where they were built, their goal was always the same... Panelki allows you to assemble a Soviet-era prefab block, panel by panel, while learning about the history of mass housing behind the Iron Curtain I Released: October 2019
Book | Hardcover | 144 pages
Over 100 photographs
A photographic journey through the concrete peripheries of the former Eastern Bloc, featuring over 100 photographs showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture scattered around the cities of Moscow, Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kyiv and Saint Petersburg, including objects like houses ‘on chicken legs’, Soviet ‘flying saucers’ or hammer-shaped tower blocks I Released: April 2019
Book | Hardcover | 56 pages
Contains 9 press-out paper models celebrating British brutalist architecture
Explore the modern past of Great Britain and rebuild some of its most intriguing post-war edifices, from the iconic slabs of Sheffield`s Park Hill and London's Trellick Tower, to the demolished Birmingham Central Library I 2nd Edition: June 2022
Contains 9 paper cut-out models recreating the modernist architecture of the former German Democratic Republic
Have a peep over the Wall and reconstruct some of the most captivating modernist and brutalist edifices erected in East Germany, from the massive Plattenbauten of Rostock, to the icons of DDR-Moderne and the demolished ´Mokka-Milch-Eisbar ‘Kosmos'. Featuring: Berlin, Cottbus, Dessau, Dresden, Halle Neustadt, Leipzig and Rostock | Released: 2017
Contains 4 press-out comrades to assemble, inspired by Russian avant-garde architecture
Designed especially for children and their parents, the kit allows you to build your own avant-garde community with geometrical forms inspired by seminal examples of constructivist architecture, such as: Melnikov House, Kirov Town Hall or Nikolaev`s House | Released: 2017
Contains 7 paper cut-out models celebrating the brutalist architecture of Central and Eastern Europe
From panelák estates to concrete grand designs, the charm of the former Eastern Bloc architecture is certainly brutal. Explore and reconstruct some of the most controversial brutalist edifices erected behind the Iron Curtain and in the former Yugoslavia, from omnipresent pre-cast housing estates to the mighty Soviet landmarks awaiting renovation or threatened with demolition | Released: 2017
Contains 4 pres-out nesting blocks inspired by the housing estates of the former Eastern Bloc
Blokoshka offers a playful insight into the 'sleeping districts' of Moscow, Plattenbau constructions of East Berlin, Warsaw's large-scale housing estates, and the panelák blocks in Prague. The nesting blocks are designed to be opened in half and placed inside one another, in the same way as a Russian matryoshka | Released: 2016
Book | Hardcover | 72 pages
Contains 9 press-out paper models celebrating London brutalist architecture
Originally published by Zupagrafika in 2015, the internationally acclaimed 'Brutal London' collection was translated into this book in 2016. Detach and construct iconic brutalist structures, such as: Balfron Tower, Barbican Estate, and the National Theatre, as well as housing estates, like Robin Hood Gardens, doomed to premature demolition | Released: 2016 (Prestel Publishing)
Books, kits and prints
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Selected prints from our photography books
A collection of illustrated cut-out paper models, inspired by the brutalist architecture of London from the 1960s to the 1970s, featuring some of the most controversial concrete constructions scattered around the districts of Camden, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. Includes information on the architects, year of construction and location of each building | Released: 2015
A series of illustrated paper models portraying the brutalist architecture of Paris from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The collection features buildings scattered around the arrondissements, as well as the infamous suburban banlieues. It comes completed with a free recreation of Le Corbusier`s 1925 Plan Voisin - proposing an innovative solution for the centre of Paris I Released: 2016
Paper cut-out model kits.
Katowice post-war modernist architecture
A set of illustrated cut-out paper models representing 1960s-1980s post-war modernist architecture of Katowice, capital of the Upper Silesian Industrial Region (Poland). The series features iconic buildings still to be found in the city centre, prefab panel blocks from the outskirts as well as the brutalist Katowice railway station, demolished in 2011 I Released: 2015
Paper cut-out model kits.
‘Must Have 2014’ Award by Łódz Design Festival
A collection of illustrated cut-out paper models celebrating the post-war modernist architecture of Warsaw, Poland. The series features iconic examples of functional architecture, such as Rotunda PKO, monolithic concrete structures, like Smolna 8 and Za Żelazną Bramą Estate, as well as prefab panel blocks to be found in the suburbs I Released: 2014
Paper cut-out model kits.
Polish post-war modernist architecture
A cut-out-and-build alphabet featuring the post-war modernist architecture of Poland.
Beautifully illustrated sketchbooks inspired by the post-war modernist estates of Warsaw, Berlin, Moscow, Prague, London and Paris.
Paying tribute to the mass housing and prefabricated systems widely used in Central and Eastern Europe.
A3 & B1 | 19 – 32 €
B1 & B2 | 23 – 32 €
