ZUPAGRAFIKA

02/07/2025

A unique photographic essay exploring mass housing estates built in the former Eastern Bloc and their original residents.

Meet the tenants...
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30/06/2025

Brutal Books...
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18/06/2025

From Siberia to the Balkans, each of our photobooks tells its own story… We’ve curated a selection of bundles to make it easier to bring them together:
zupagrafika.com/bundles

14/06/2025

Mass-produced from the 1970s to 1990s, modular kiosks like the K-67, by Slovenian architect Saša J. Mächtig, could be found anywhere throughout the former Eastern Bloc and ex-Yugoslav countries, from bustling city squares to socialist-era housing estates.
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📸 David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka © Zupagrafika

10/06/2025

We spoke with Alex Webber of TVP World about our new book 'Eastern Blocks II':

The book is a paean to the region's vanishing housing estates.

08/06/2025

From Eastern Blocks II: "In the 1960s, a new urban plan for Sofia aimed to expand the city’s outskirts, particularly in the districts of Mladost in the southeast and Lyulin in the northwest, envisioned as new centres of communal life. Lyulin, planned by the municipal Sofproekt Design Bureau, was divided into 10 microdistricts, each with its own distinct layout and infrastructure, and remains Bulgaria’s largest and most populous residential hub."

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📸 David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka © Zupagrafika (Eastern Blocks II)

23/05/2025

From Eastern Blocks II: The housing shortage in post-war Tbilisi instigated residential construction on a mass scale, with entire new districts, such as Vake-Saburtalo and Gldani, built with prefabricated structures. Yet local ornaments, mosaics, and decorated facade panels were used to add distinctive touches and break the monotony of the standardised housing estates.

📸 David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka © Zupagrafika (Eastern Blocks II)

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06/05/2025

Two years ago, we set out to explore Hong Kong's public housing estates. The result is this beautifully crafted book, with photos, informative texts, and illustrated paper models that let you build your own modernist metropolis.
www.zupagrafika.com/concrete-hong-kong

28/04/2025

Meanwhile, in Prague…
www.zupagrafika.com/eastern-blocks-volume-2

📸 David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka © Zupagrafika (Eastern Blocks II)

18/04/2025

Po sukcesie pierwszego tomu Zupagrafika – duet autorsko-wydawniczy tworzony przez Davida Navarro i Martynę Sobecką – powraca z kolejnym rozdziałem podróży przez betonowe dziedzictwo Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. „Eastern Blocks II: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc”, wydany ...

13/04/2025

Meanwhile, in Lasnamäe, Tallinn, Estonia…
www.zupagrafika.com/eastern-blocks-volume-2

📸 David Navarro & Martyna Sobecka © Zupagrafika (Eastern Blocks II)

09/04/2025

www.zupagrafika.com/eastern-blocks-volume-2