Item #2125 Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991). N. S. Malinin A. Iu. Bronovitskaia, Iurii Pal'min, photography.
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)
Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)

Moskva: arkhitektura sovetskogo modernizma 1955–1991. Spavochnik-putevoditel (Moscow: handbook and guide to the architecture of Soviet modernism 1955–1991)

Moscow: Garazh / Muzei arkhitektury im. A.V. Shchuseva, 2016. Pb. In a detailed introduction the authors elaborate on the strange course of modernism in Russian-Soviet architecture. After a fertile beginning in the late tsarist and early Soviet period, it was denounced by Stalin in the early thirties, when an official neoclassicism became the requisite style for state commissions (i.e., almost all commissions). For the rest of the thirties, forties, and early fifties neoclassical public buildings and ensembles predominated. After Stalin's death in 1953 Khrushchev as part of his denunciation of the cult of personality decried architects for preferring grandiose projects and ignoring housing, of which there was a gross shortage. Modernist styles that Stalin had suppressed came back into favor. Drawing on technologies and styles from Western Europe, America, and the Russian avant-garde, designers, builders, and engineers brought about modernism's second birth. Organized as a handbook with entries on specific buildings it also broaches broad questions based on research and thus offers something like an architectural history of the period with emphasis on the relation between politics and art. Scrupulous entries, bibliography, and index will make the book an excellent reference tool. 327 p., 25 cm, approx.  400 b/w and color illus., Rus. Item #2125
ISBN: 9785990561274

Price: $71.00