When hearing the name Siberia, the first things coming to our minds are probably eternal frost, rigidness or perhaps fighting for survival. David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, the founders of design studio Zupagrafika decided to travel across perhaps the most extreme and less known area of the Earth to show us what the brutalist architecture of the Far North is like.
Poland-based Zupagrafika’s work is characterized by taking an unconventional approach to covering topics of modernist architecture. Their latest work received the name Concrete Siberia, and explores the romance of modernist architecture and everyday life in post-war Siberia.
“Through Concrete Siberia we are sharing the architecture which fascinates us and which we have been documenting in many ways (whether through illustration or photography) for the last decade. Many of the buildings photographed in the book have not been published in any form before. We believe this book can be a tool to explore unknown places and constructions that shaped the cityscapes of Siberia and also, perhaps, to appreciate them as they are” – David and Martyna told us.
