The first book ever to focus on the Novosibirsk branch of the legendary paper architecture movement during the last decade of the Soviet Union. Cosmic cow sheds, insectoids, Egyptian pyramids, steam locomotive hybrids, and deconstructi...Daugiau...
Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined post...Daugiau...
This edited volume offers a unique exploration into the ways in which Soviet culture and experience of time was unique, examining the temporalities expressed in the world of socialist things: from the objects of everyday life to urban architecture...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226524238)
The artist and architect El Lissitzky (1890-1941) is celebrated for his contributions to painting, architecture, photography, and graphic design, and for his role in disseminating Russian and Soviet avant-garde art in Europe during the 1920s. Though...Daugiau...
How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940s-1960s? The articles address both the Stalinist period and the Khrushchev Thaw, when the Marxist-Leninist discourse on art history was...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Sep-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262047982)
Ideologically opposed, technologically cooperativean original account of US and USSR industrialization between the world wars.Between 1927 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union....Daugiau...
This book investigates what happens to domestic architecture during socioeconomic upheaval by analyzing how Soviet and post-Soviet urbanites, navigating the crisis of the collapse of the USSR, transformed their dwellings as their countries transform...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Apr-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501768637)
Monuments for Posterity challenges the common assumption that Stalinist monuments were constructed with an immediate, propagandistic function, arguing instead that they were designed to memorialize the present for an imagined post...Daugiau...
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the c...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Aug-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517912277)
Examining theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-ori...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Aug-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517912260)
Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within...Daugiau...
Frédéric Chaubins Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed features 90 Soviet buildings throughout the former USSR, each built between 1970 and 1990. It is a journey through time. With local exoticism, outlandish ideas, and a puzzle of styles, th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Jun-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262046862)
The story of Boris Iofandesigner of the iconic but unbuilt Palace of the Sovietswhose buildings came to define the language of Soviet architecture.What would an architect do for the chance to build the tallest building in the world?...Daugiau...
Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social...Daugiau...
The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofans previously unseen sketchbooks and photographs from private collections. This is a history of architectu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Feb-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501759192)
Spatial Revolution is the first comparative parallel study of Soviet architecture and planning to create a narrative arc across a vast geography. The narrative binds together three critical industrial-residential projects...Daugiau...
Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture, in which utopian modernism was practically prohibited by 1932 under Stalins totalitarianism. Radically redefining the histori...Daugiau...
Alexey Shchusev (18731949) was one of the most celebrated architects of the Soviet Union, famous for Lenins Mausoleum in Moscow. Not only a gifted designer of many prominent buildings, his career was quite unique and closely intertwined wi...Daugiau...
The Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s to the mid-1930s has increasingly been attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Yet, in spite of this, entire regions remain unstudied. One of these is the south of Russia. Bas...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Dec-2020, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691178905)
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper-- An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project....Daugiau...
An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R. An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United Stat...Daugiau...
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalins totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefinin...Daugiau...
Chronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. Combining detailed archival research, participant observatio...Daugiau...
Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian architectureSoviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Con...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Jan-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526114884)
The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aest...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: DOM Publishers, ISBN-13: 9783869227061)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
This new publication is a comprehensive study of Soviet Modernism in Ukraine. The authors and architects, Oleksiy Bykov and Ievgeniia Gubkina, have studied modernism in architecture in depth over many years. In this 250-page book, they explore the un...Daugiau...
Brutalist hotels, avant-garde monuments and futurist TV towers: rare and previously unpublished vintage postcards from the Eastern BlocBrutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workersthis collection of...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
First time this landmark book by ideologue of Constructivism has been published in EnglishPublished in partnership with Alexei Ginzburg, grandson of Moisei, and himself an architect, now involved in the reconstruction of Narkomfin building...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed dokumentiert eine architektonische Pilgerfahrt in eine bereits untergegangene Zukunft. Auf seinen Reisen durch die ehemaligen Teilrepubliken der UdSSR entdeckte der französische Publizist Frédéric Chaubin e...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-May-2017, Hardback, Leidėjas: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526114860)
The creation of Soviet culture in the 1920s and the 1930s was the most radical of modernist projects, both in aesthetic and in political terms. Modernism and the Making of the New Man explores the architecture of this period as the nexus between aest...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Tashkent, the southernmost metropolis of millions in the Soviet Union, is a city redolent with architectural contrasts and para doxes. Home to the most beautiful prefabricated buildings in the world, it features a prominent urban duality pre dicated...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Sep-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487521660)
Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscows central corridors of power...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Apr-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691635064)
Analyzing "totalitarianism from below" in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted t...Daugiau...
This volume documents the House of the Narkomfin, built (or montaged, as the Constructivist architect Moisej J. Ginzburg (19861946) preferred to call it) between 1928 and 1931. It is therefore contemporaneous with Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, as w...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jan-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: DOM Publishers, ISBN-13: 9783869224466)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Soviet mass housing is a contradictory but unique phenomenon. It is usually blamed for creating the most monotonous built environment in the history of mankind, thus constituting a symbol of individual suppression and dejection. The construction prog...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Oct-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801453076)
Stories of House and Home is a social and cultural history of the massive construction campaign that Khrushchev instituted in 1957 to resolve the housing crisis in the Soviet Union and to provide each family its own apartment....Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Soviet mass housing is a contradictory but unique phenomenon. It is usually blamed for creating the most monotonous built environment in the history of mankind, thus constituting a symbol of individual suppression and dejection. The construction prog...Daugiau...
Analyzing "totalitarianism from below" in a crucial area of Soviet culture, Hugh Hudson shows how Stalinist forces within the architectural community destroyed an avant-garde movement of urban planners and architects, who attempted to cr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Dec-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253014849)
Saving Stalins Imperial City is a story of preservation, restoration, and commemoration in Leningrad during and after World War II. It is a history of the successes and failures in historic preservation and of Leningraders determination to preserv...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2013, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442645349)
Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscows central corridors of power...Daugiau...
Harris (history, U. of Mary Washington) presents a study of the transition from communal housing to single-family apartments in the Soviet Union instigated by Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. Harris describes Khrushchevs rule as a period of thaw from...Daugiau...
Paperny examines the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period. Defining two conflicting trends -- Culture One and Culture Two -- that have alternately prevailed in Russian culture, the author argues that the shift away from th...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Sep-2010, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822961130)
Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek ar...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 19-Sep-2010, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822943945)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek ar...Daugiau...
