When the show opens this July it will be the first major U.S. exhibition to examine the wide range and complexity of structures built under Tito

Socialist Yugoslavia has not existed for almost 25 years, but it still had yet to receive proper recognition for its unique architectural landscape until now. "Our view of modern architecture has traditionally been too narrowly focused on developments in North America and Western Europe," Martino Stierli, MoMA's Philip Johnson chief curator of architecture and design, tells AD PRO. "This important body of work," he says, referring to socialist Yugoslavia's architectural culture, "has been pretty much ignored in Western perception until quite recently." That's all about to change: The museum has just announced a new exhibition on the subject, titled Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980

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