Landmarks of Soviet Architecture, 1917-1991
Author: Aleksandr V. Rjabušin
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783433023341
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Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783433023341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Aleksandr Vasilʹevich Ri︠a︡bushin
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Soviet architecture was born and shaped from the outset by dispute..."--from the introductory essay. This catalog documents the architectural output of a country besieged with powerful and conflicting political pressures and aspirations. Text and photos combine to record the architectural heritage of the Communist regime. Translated from the Russian. Lacks an index. 9.5x11" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: William Craft Brumfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1317973259
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive guide to Russian architecture, this volume is designed for students and other readers wishing to gain an understanding of the subject.
Author: R. Stephen Sennott
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781579584344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more information including the introduction, a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample pages and more, visit the Encyclope dia of 20th Century Architecture website. Focusing on architecture from all regions of the world, this three-volume set profiles the twentieth century's vast chronicle of architectural achievements, both within and well beyond the theoretical confines of modernism. Unlike existing works, this encyclopedia examines the complexities of rapidly changing global conditions that have dispersed modern architectural types, movements, styles, and building practices across traditional geographic and cultural boundaries.
Author: Hugh D. Hudson Jr.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1400872820
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 create a more humane built environment for the Soviet people. Through a study of the ideas and constructions of these visionary reformers, Hudson explores their efforts to build new forms of housing and "settlements" designed to free the residents, especially women, from drudgery, allowing them to participate in creative work and to enjoy the "songs of larks." Resolving to obliterate this movement of human liberation, Stalinists in the field of architecture unleashed a "little" terror from below, prior to Stalin's Great Terror. Using formerly secret Party archives made available by perestroika, Hudson finds in the rediscovered theoretical work of the avant-garde architects a new understanding of their aims. He shows, for instance, how they saw the necessity of bringing elite desires for a transformed world into harmony with the people's wish to preserve national culture. Such goals brought their often divided movement into conflict with the Stalinists, especially on the subject of collectivization. Hudson's provocative work offers evidence that in spite of the ultimate success of the Stalinists, the Bolshevik Revolution was not monolithic: at one time it offered real architectural and human alternatives to the Terror. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Anatole Kopp
Publisher: George Braziller
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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