Smack in the middle of Kosovo’s capital Pristina ... The grid of steel covering its brutalist exterior deflects sunlight, cooling the building and protecting the books inside.

Zupagrafika's 'Eastern Blocks II' chronicles the brutalist housing estates and public structures of the Eastern Bloc.

Brutalism is the techno music of architecture, stark and menacing. Brutalist buildings are expensive to maintain and difficult to destroy. They can't be easily remodeled or changed, so they tend ...