Zupagrafika – David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka – is an independent publisher and graphic design studio in Poznań, Poland, celebrating modernist architecture. Their latest book, Eastern Blocks, is "a photographic journey through the cityscapes of the former Eastern Bloc", showcasing modernist and brutalist architecture around the cities of Moscow, East Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Kiev and Saint Petersburg.
Novoyasenevskiy Prospekt housing complex in Yasenevo District, Moscow
The Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics, in the Kalininsky District, Saint Petersburg
Housing complex near Novosmolenskaya Embankment in Vasileostrovsky District, Saint Petersburg
Plattenbau on Frankfurter Allee in Lichtenberg, Berlin
"The Titanic", residential complex Bolshaya Tulskaya, Danilovsky District, Moscow
"The House on Chicken Legs" in the Alexeyevsky District of Moscow
On the Herzbergstraße in Fennpfuhl, Lichtenberg, Berlin
Za Żelazną Bramą Estate on Marszałkowska Street in Śródmieście Północne, Warsaw
The Torwar Estate on Fabryczna street in Solec, Śródmieście, Warsaw
A Soviet mosaic on a tower block on Prospekt Peremohy, in Shuliavka, Shevchenkivskyi District, Kiev
Residential tower blocks on Obolonskyi Prospekt in Obolon, Obolonskyi District, Kiev
Shevchenko University in Holosiivskyi District, Kiev
Club 100, property of the Russian embassy on Sobieskiego Street in Mokotów, Warsaw
Tower blocks by Sonyachne Lake in Darnytskyi District, Kiev
[Photos © Zupagrafika]
The winter setting in many of the photos just adds to the bleakness and dramatic sense of scale here.
Mick Hartley 
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