Echoes of Concrete: Acoustic Heritage of Endangered Brutalist Architecture in Belgrade is an artistic research project that investigates the sonic memory of modernist and brutalist architecture in Belgrade.

The project approaches buildings not only as visual or historical objects, but as acoustic spaces: places where public life, political history, material decay, social use and urban transformation continue to resonate. Through field recordings, binaural and Ambisonic documentation, impulse responses and site observation, the project listens to selected architectural sites as fragile carriers of memory.

Focusing on endangered or contested spaces, including halls, foyers, passages, courtyards and other collective interiors, Echoes of Concrete asks what can be preserved when a building is transformed, neglected, privatised, or lost. Rather than treating sound as an accessory to architecture, the project considers listening as a critical method for understanding heritage, especially in places where memory remains unresolved or disputed.

The research will result in a compact aural archive, a short listening piece and a written listening briefing connecting sonic experience, architectural history and ongoing debates around dissonant heritage.

The project is currently in its initial phase and will be updated progressively as the research develops. Future updates will include field notes, recordings, images, maps, selected sites and reflections from the listening process.

This project is Funded By The European Union and the Goethe Institut as part of the Culture Moves Europe program.