Moskovskii metro: podzemnyi pamiatnik arkhitektury / Moscow Metro: Underground Monument of Architecture
Moscow: Kuchkovo pole / Muzei arkhitektury im. A.V. Shchuseva, 2016. Sewn cl. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture covers many aspects of design and construction especially in the early 1930s, when the metro was conceived and competing designs winnowed — engineering of tunnels and ornamentation of interiors; styles of neoclassicism, modernism and postmodernism; the ideology of grand public construction; and details of the practical movement of crowds and psychological effects of being underground. The copious illustrations — plans, new photos and archival photos, drawings of interiors, many reproduced on two-page spreads — give a sense of the metro as both a grand public project and a stylish interior. The authors do not broach thorny questions such as would a public project to transport ordinary people going to work have been designed palatially if there had not been forced labor and totalitarian rule and how much of the art was propaganda. 311 p., 24 cm, approx. 600 color and b/w illus., Rus. with title page and captions in ENGLISH. Item #2765
ISBN: 9785995008507
Chapter titles: The Moscow Metro: the Underground Future of the Country; Three Approaches to the Design of the Metro in the 1930s; Collection of the Shchusev Museum of Architecture on the Metro; Synthesis of the Arts in the Moscow Metro: the Varied Styles of Stalinist Neoclassicism; The Moscow Metro during War; Path to Modernism: 1960s–80s; Restoration in the Moscow Metro.
Price: $88.00