被挤在两个冷战对立阵营中间的南斯拉夫，其建筑一直遵循着现代主义轨道。作为“不结盟运动”的创始国，南斯拉夫成为主要的向后殖民世界的非洲和中东出口现代主义建筑的国家。通过在****的南斯拉夫社会主义品牌（经常被称为“第三种方式”）的背景下，将各种当地传统和当代国际影响力融合，当地的建筑师们在这个国家存在的45年间创造了一种名副其实的现代建筑的“平行宇宙”。 这部不同凡响的作品集使全球重新重新燃起了兴趣，然而一个在美国从未得以实现的严谨的阐释性研究直到现在才得以实现。

本书与一次关于南斯拉夫在1948年和1980年之间的建筑作品的展览同时出版，是**本展示作为替补但又非常重要的大量现代主义建筑的出版物。这本插图丰富的出版物以新的学术研究和此前未发表过的档案材料为特色，通过深入探究那些不同凡响的项目和那个时代的关键人物，如Bogdan Bogdanovic, Zoran Bojovic, Drago Galic, Janko Konstantinov, Georgi Konstantinovski, Niko Kralj, Boris Magaš, Juraj Neidhardt, Jože Plecnik, Svetlana Kana Radevic, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, Milica Šteric, Ivan Štraus 和 Zlatko Ugljen，阐明了南斯拉夫建筑的重要思想观念、城市生活方式和社会。

Published in conjunction with a major survey exhibition on the architectural production of Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980, this is the first scholarly publication to showcase an understudied but important and exceptional body of modernist architecture.

Squeezed between the two rival Cold War blocs, Yugoslav architecture consistently adhered to a modernist trajectory. As a founding nation of the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslavia became a major exporter of modernist architecture to Africa and the Middle East in a postcolonial world. By merging a variety of local traditions and contemporary international influences in the context of a unique Yugoslav brand of socialism, often described as the ‘Third Way’, local architects produced a veritable ‘parallel universe’ of modern architecture during the forty-five years of the country’s existence. This remarkable body of work has sparked recurrent international interest, yet a rigorous interpretative study never materialized in the United States until now.

Published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the architectural production of Yugoslavia between 1948 and 1980, this is the first scholarly publication to showcase an understudied but important body of modernist architecture. Featuring new scholarship and previously unpublished archival materials, this richly illustrated publication sheds light on key ideological concepts of Yugoslav architecture, urbanism, and society by delving into the exceptional projects and key figures of the era.