Kiosk

Name: Kiosk - modernist kiosks in Eastern and Central Europe
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The Last Modernist Booths Across Central and Eastern Europe

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Modular kiosks adapted for mass production from the 1980s to the late 1990s, such as the iconic K67 designed by Slovenian architect Saša J. Mächtig, and similar systems - including the Polish Kami, the Macedonian KC190 and the Soviet Bathyscaphe - were common throughout the former Eastern Bloc and the former Yugoslav countries. They functioned as hot-dog and zapiekanki stalls, egg and chicken bakeries, funeral flower stalls, newsstands, parking stations, currency exchange offices, etc.

This book of photographs features more than 150 kiosks - from Ljubljana to Warsaw, from Belgrade to Berlin. It is a never-before-seen documentation of the surviving modernist kiosks that witnessed the socio-political changes in Central and Eastern Europe at the end of the 20th century. Some of them are still in operation or have been renovated, others are abandoned or slowly disappearing from the urban landscape. Photos taken over the last decade by Zupagrafika founders David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka. The book also includes an introduction by urban researcher Maciej Czarnecki and a text by architectural historian Anna Cymer, which reveals the history of these mobile structures.

Hardcover
208 pages
Size: 17 × 24 cm