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By using photography and historical documentation, Elian Somers investigates in Border Theories the relationship between architecture, politics and history in three Russian cities. During the 20th century, Birobidzhan, Kaliningrad and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were designed, built and redeveloped under the Soviet regime, with the utopian vision of a socialist city as the guiding(...)
Elian Somers: border theories
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By using photography and historical documentation, Elian Somers investigates in Border Theories the relationship between architecture, politics and history in three Russian cities. During the 20th century, Birobidzhan, Kaliningrad and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were designed, built and redeveloped under the Soviet regime, with the utopian vision of a socialist city as the guiding principle for each. By examining the evolution of these cities, Somers reveals how visions of urban planners, nourished by political convictions, can control but never fully overwrite a city and its history.
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L'Inkhouk (Institut de la Culture artistique) fut en 1920 l'héritier du Soviet des artistes. Ses membres avaient pour mission d'élaborer les théories et les méthodes nouvelles de création formelle. Il fut dirigé d'abord par Kandinsky puis par Rodtchenko. Cet ouvrage montre que l'Inkhouk fut, de 1920 à 1922, le creuset où s'élabora le Constructivisme, dans le feu des(...)
L'Inkhouk : naissance du constructivisme
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L'Inkhouk (Institut de la Culture artistique) fut en 1920 l'héritier du Soviet des artistes. Ses membres avaient pour mission d'élaborer les théories et les méthodes nouvelles de création formelle. Il fut dirigé d'abord par Kandinsky puis par Rodtchenko. Cet ouvrage montre que l'Inkhouk fut, de 1920 à 1922, le creuset où s'élabora le Constructivisme, dans le feu des discussions. Cette mise en perspective historique s'accompagne d'une documentation photographique, qui permet de constater à quel point les oeuvres originales des constructivistes des années vingt restent fraîches et neuves.
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Modernism
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Qui furent les centaines de milliers de zeks qui construisirent Norilsk, ville la plus froide et septentrionale du monde, mais aussi site minier le plus pollué de Russie – dont la compagnie Norilsk Nickel créée en 1935 raffine ici 20% de la production mondiale de ce métal stratégique. Le présent livre propose d’éclairer le parcours étonnant et méconnu de Kévork Kotchar et(...)
Norilsk : l'architecture au Goulag, histoire caucasienne de la ville polaire soviétique
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Qui furent les centaines de milliers de zeks qui construisirent Norilsk, ville la plus froide et septentrionale du monde, mais aussi site minier le plus pollué de Russie – dont la compagnie Norilsk Nickel créée en 1935 raffine ici 20% de la production mondiale de ce métal stratégique. Le présent livre propose d’éclairer le parcours étonnant et méconnu de Kévork Kotchar et Mikael Mazmanian, deux de ses architectes, issus du courant constructiviste soviétique, et victimes de la répression stalinienne. Leur mission ? Urbaniser le permafrost du camp Noril’lag où ils furent déportés à la fin des années 1930, afin de répondre aux défis posés par la construction d’une ville coupée du monde – à laquelle aucune route ne conduit encore aujourd'hui.
Architectural Theory
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Established sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan and the largest metropolis in Central Asia benefiting from its historical role as geographic crossroads, its developed resources, and its thriving multiculturalism. Previous Soviet rule was established in 1917—which over six decades heralded transformations in Tashkent’s(...)
Karel Ballas: Tashkent Modernism
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Established sometime around the 1st or 2nd century BCE, Tashkent is the capital city of Uzbekistan and the largest metropolis in Central Asia benefiting from its historical role as geographic crossroads, its developed resources, and its thriving multiculturalism. Previous Soviet rule was established in 1917—which over six decades heralded transformations in Tashkent’s culture, identity, and, of course, its landscape and architecture. In this volume, realized in collaboration with the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation, photographer Karel Balas reveals the modernist architecture of Tashkent through a collection of never-before-seen photographs.
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The result of a research over a period of almost six years, this book gives a unique perspective on the Soviet architecture of the 1920s-1930s in Ukraine and Azerbaijan. It documents forgotten buildings of the period, which are on the brink of disappearing without gaining the respect and acknowledgment they deserve. Along with general overview of the architecture of the(...)
Great expectations, crashed hopes : disappearing treasures of constructivist architecture of Ukraine and Azerbaijan
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The result of a research over a period of almost six years, this book gives a unique perspective on the Soviet architecture of the 1920s-1930s in Ukraine and Azerbaijan. It documents forgotten buildings of the period, which are on the brink of disappearing without gaining the respect and acknowledgment they deserve. Along with general overview of the architecture of the period and nearly 170 photographs of the buildings, invaluable information is provided on their architects, most of which are virtually unknown to this day. Text in English and Ukranian.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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The idea of public spaces—city parks, waterfront bike paths, and bustling squares—has long been associated with urban environments. Public Spheres After Socialism challenges this idea in light of the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Drawing together experiences from across Europe, this innovative volume reconsiders the public sphere as a(...)
Urban Theory
October 2008, Bristol, Chicago
Public spheres after socialism
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The idea of public spaces—city parks, waterfront bike paths, and bustling squares—has long been associated with urban environments. Public Spheres After Socialism challenges this idea in light of the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Drawing together experiences from across Europe, this innovative volume reconsiders the public sphere as a figurative, or mythical, location where members of society shape and determine its values. This book examines monuments, reconstruction, film, and new media to ask whether public spaces are viable in an age of globalized consumerism.
Urban Theory
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'Red Africa' is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22, London, and Iwalewa House, Bayreuth. This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International. Connections were particularly strong with countries(...)
Red Africa: Affective communities and the cold war
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'Red Africa' is the culmination of a two-year research programme and exhibition project at Calvert 22, London, and Iwalewa House, Bayreuth. This traced the work of African artists and filmmakers who studied in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc under free education schemes originally offered under the Third International. Connections were particularly strong with countries such as Mozambique, Ghana, Ethiopia and Angola that were conducting libertarian struggles, or which, post-independence, were part of the Non-Aligned Movement, which held its first Summit conference in Belgrade in 1961.
Art Theory
East German modern
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The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and efficiency, and heralded the birth of a new country and a new economic and social system. Hans Engels has traveled throughout(...)
East German modern
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The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German Democratic Republic was created with an eye toward modernity and efficiency, and heralded the birth of a new country and a new economic and social system. Hans Engels has traveled throughout East Germany to photograph iconic modernist buildings that survived demolition. From movie theaters, high-rises, and restaurants to museums, convention centers, and transit stations, these buildings have all stood the test of time.
Modernism
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This book is dedicated solely to this important member of the Russian avant-garde, this volume profiles Lazar Khidekel, a brilliant artist and architect whose career proves a key link in the story of abstraction. For decades the work of Lazar Khidekel has been undeservedly overlooked by galleries and museums--primarily because the Russian avant-garde movement was(...)
Lazar Khidekel and suprematism
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This book is dedicated solely to this important member of the Russian avant-garde, this volume profiles Lazar Khidekel, a brilliant artist and architect whose career proves a key link in the story of abstraction. For decades the work of Lazar Khidekel has been undeservedly overlooked by galleries and museums--primarily because the Russian avant-garde movement was interrupted midstream and forced underground by the Soviet state. It provides the perfect introduction to Khidekel's decades-long career and coincides with a recently renewed fascination with Suprematism and the development of 20th-century abstraction.
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CCCP cookbook
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The stories and recipes contained in the CCCP Cook Book reflect its turbulent times: from basic subsistence meals consumed by the average citizen (like okroshka, a cold soup made with the fermented beverage kvass) to extravagant banquets held by the political elite (suckling pig with buckwheat), with a scattering of classics (beef stroganoff) in between. Each recipe is(...)
CCCP cookbook
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The stories and recipes contained in the CCCP Cook Book reflect its turbulent times: from basic subsistence meals consumed by the average citizen (like okroshka, a cold soup made with the fermented beverage kvass) to extravagant banquets held by the political elite (suckling pig with buckwheat), with a scattering of classics (beef stroganoff) in between. Each recipe is introduced with a historical story or anecdote from the period, and illustrated using images sourced from original Soviet recipe books collected by the authors, food historians Olga and Pavel Syutkin.
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