Main entry:

Vronskaya, Alla, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences / Alla Vronskaya.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Description:

xxxii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Life: An Ideology for Modernity -- Space: Formalist Architectural Pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS -- Orientation: El Lissitzky's Evolutionist Urbanism -- Fitness: Nikolay Ladovsky's Architectural Psychotechnics -- Process: Organicist Aesthetics of Soviet Standardization -- Energy: Soviet Wall-Painting and the Economy of Perception -- Personality: Gorky Park as a Factory of Dealienation -- Conclusion. History: From the Monistic to the Terrestrial.

Summary:

"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-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781517912260 hardcover
1517912261 hardcover
9781517912277 paperback
151791227X paperback
electronic book
9781452967141

Subject:

Architecture and science Soviet Union.
Modern movement (Architecture) Soviet Union.
Architecture Human factors Soviet Union.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) URSS.
Architecture Facteurs humains URSS.
Architecture et sciences URSS.
Architecture and science
Architecture Human factors
Modern movement (Architecture)
Soviet Union

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315992
Call No.: 315992
Copy: 1
Status: Available