Donald Niebyl founded and manages Spomenik Database, a website dedicated to monumental Yugoslav WWII memorials. Donald not only travelled up and down former Yugoslavia visiting monuments (or ‘spomeniks’ as they are called in local languages), but he also researched and wrote detailed history of many of them, soon to be published as a book – ‘Spomenik Monument Database’ (pre-order on Amazon).
Notes
- Spomenik database on Twitter and Facebook
- A thought-provoking article about spomeniks on Calvert Journal
- MoMA exhibition of Yugoslav Brutalist Architecture (Jul 2018-Jan 2019)
- Past tours organised with Atlas Obscura
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjkZykMlLQ4/?taken-by=spomenikdatabase
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeOH3X2lUr6/?hl=en&taken-by=spomenikdatabase
https://www.instagram.com/p/BhZZWy8ljXK/?taken-by=spomenikdatabase
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