Eastern Blocks Volume II: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc by Zupagrafika

This second volume of Zupagrafika’s Eastern Blocks expands the photographic survey of concrete suburbs across the former Eastern Bloc. Stretching from Ukraine to Georgia and sweeping through the Baltic Sea to the Balkans, the book captures the socialist-era architecture that reshaped the urban landscapes of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, from modernist grand designs and brutalist monoliths to the often-overlooked prefabricated panel housing estates and their distinctive typologies.

Featuring over 180 photographs by Zupagrafika founders David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, with additional contributions by local photographers and a foreword by architectural historian Kateryna Malaia, Eastern Blocks II is organised into 10 chapters, each focusing on a city – Chișinău, Kaliningrad, Lviv, Minsk, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Tbilisi and Vilnius – offering valuable insights into post-war modernist architecture in each region.

Author: David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka (Zupagrafika)

Photographers: David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka (Chișinău, Lviv, Prague, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Tbilisi, Vilnius); Alexander Veryovkin (Kaliningrad, Minsk); Kseniya Lokotko (Minsk)

Hardback