Kosovo presented at New York Museum of Modern Art

The New York Museum of Modern Art, from July 15, 2018 to January 13, 2019, will feature exhibitions: Toward a Concrete Utopia: Archaeology in Yugoslavia, 19481980 Architectures in Yugoslavia, 1948 é 1980).

Kosovo architect Patrisa Pruthi, distinguished student of The Cooper Union School of Archaeology, New York's most prestigious architecture University, will present her work for the National and University Library of Kosovo on 10 July at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

An architect's participation, Patrisa Prudti, means much to the state of Kosovo, since for the first time a Kosovo monument is presented at a prestigious museum like the MOMA.

The model of Kosovo's National and University Library selected among many other monuments from the former Yugoslavia, its one-year work will find room in MoMA from July 10th 2018 to January 13th 2019.

Towards a Stopie Beton: The architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980, first presents the extraordinary work of Socialist Yugoslavia's top architects in an international audience, emphasising an important architectural modern body, the contributions of progressive thinking that resonable today. The exhibition explores extensive urbanisation themes, technology in daily life, consumerism, monuments and memorialisation, as well as the global achievement of Yugoslav architecture. The exhibition includes more than 400 drawings, models, photos and videos from a collection of municipal archives, family collections and museums across the region, as well as contains the work of important architects, including Bogdan Bogdanovic, Yuray Neidhardt, Svetlana Kana Radevievic, Edvard Ravnikar, Viennaslav Richter and Milica quarterser. From the sculpture of the White Mosque in rural Bosnia to the reconstruction of the city of Skopje under Kenzo Tange's Metabolist design, as well as the unique style of the building of the National Library of Kosovo designed by Croatian architect Andrija Mutnjaković, the exhibition examines the unique range of forms and ways of production in Yugoslav architecture and its unique but multidimensional character.

The exhibition is organised by Martino Stierli é, chief curator of architecture and Disaine, Philip Johnson, at the Museum of Modern Art and Vladimir Kulic, guest curator, Anna Kats, assistant curator, Department of architecture and Dizajne, the Museum of Modern Art.