Part of the foreword to the Balcony Chic book by Oleksandr Burlaka

Dana Pavlychko, Oleksii Bykov and Serhii Pylypenko are talking about problems and perception of Soviet Modern architecture in Ukraine at the presentation of the Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-Modernism. Building and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991 book.

Photo report from the presentation of Soviet Modernism. Brutality, Postmodernism. Building and Structures in Ukraine 1955-1991.

All copies of the book will be given to Ukrainian libraries, free of charge.

I paint with the colors that I feel the world with. There is no explanation more precise. My works are always mellow and pastel. Perhaps, I didn’t try enough LSD to have splashes of color. It’s a joke, of course, but it has a seed of truth in it.

Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Projects in Ukraine 1960-1990 — a glimpse into Kyiv’s endangered architectural masterpieces

Art director of Osnovy Publishing Anna Kopylova talks about the Awesome Ukraine series

Soviet Modernism. Brutalism. Post-modernism. Buildings and Projects in Ukraine 1960–1990 – a new history of Ukrainian architectural modernism.

Osnovy Publishing is preparing a Ukrainian classic Kateryna by Taras Shevchenko. Kateryna will appear with a new design with illustrations by Mykola Tolmachov.

A book is always more than just text. Our editor Anastasia Denisenko chose three books about publishing.