Made in USSR. Architecture of the former republics of the Soviet Union. From avant-garde and Stalinist empire to modernism
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Made in USSR. Architecture of the former republics of the Soviet Union. From avant-garde and Stalinist empire to modernism
19.99 €
We invite you to an unusual journey through architectural trends and amazing buildings built during the USSR period. For an impressive 69-year period of the USSR was built a huge number of bold, unusual, monumental houses, which to this day impress and mesmerize.
The Kurpaty sanatorium in the form of a flying saucer in Yalta, the house on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow, the Museum of History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, the Ministry of Highways in Tbilisi, the Kazakhstan Hotel in Almaty and many others - these buildings, different both in style and in meaning, set the tone of the city's style and reflected the cultural code of their republic. You can familiarize yourself with all the stages of development of architectural thought and the tasks that were set before architects and designers, thanks to this book. It demonstrates all styles of Soviet architecture. This edition includes colorful photographs and detailed information about 44 of the most iconic buildings from all over the former Soviet Union, which will be of interest to art historians or future architects, as well as to anyone who is fascinated by the bygone era of the USSR. Thanks to this book, we can still get an idea of the lost ideals of that time, the scope and scale of the Soviet period's design.
The Kurpaty sanatorium in the form of a flying saucer in Yalta, the house on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment in Moscow, the Museum of History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, the Ministry of Highways in Tbilisi, the Kazakhstan Hotel in Almaty and many others - these buildings, different both in style and in meaning, set the tone of the city's style and reflected the cultural code of their republic. You can familiarize yourself with all the stages of development of architectural thought and the tasks that were set before architects and designers, thanks to this book. It demonstrates all styles of Soviet architecture. This edition includes colorful photographs and detailed information about 44 of the most iconic buildings from all over the former Soviet Union, which will be of interest to art historians or future architects, as well as to anyone who is fascinated by the bygone era of the USSR. Thanks to this book, we can still get an idea of the lost ideals of that time, the scope and scale of the Soviet period's design.