The duo began photographing modernist and brutalist architecture in central and eastern Europe after founding Zupagrafika as a design studio and publishing house in 2012. On snowy winter days, they'd wander the peripheries of Berlin, Kiev, and Warsaw with DSLRs, slowly working their way towards the city centers. Those images served as references for kits of illustrated cut-outs and other architectural publications before they decided to turn them into a proper book of their own.