Balkans in Switzerland

Just find out that Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel will run an exhibition about Balkan Architecture! It' s from October to January...so plenty of time to go and see it!


BALKANOLOGY
New Architecture and Urban Phenomena
in South Eastern Europe

04.10.08 – 04.01.09


In the western Balkans, the dissolution of the People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the collapse of socialism have been accompanied by an extensive informal building activity that gives rise to a new type of urbanisation. The distinctive forms of architectural and urban development are characterised by trans-local influences and are borne by large parts of society. "Balkonology" shows the way architects and urban planners have dealt with this new phenomenon, as well as revealing examples of outstanding new architecture that addresses both modernity and the international but also the modern architecture of the People's Republic of Yugoslavia.