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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British(...)
Commercial interiors, Building types
March 2009, Cambridge
Cold war kitchen: americanization, technology and European users
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In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British state-subsidized kitchen design so innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury American product. The concluding essays challenge the received wisdom of past interpretations of the kitchen debate.
Commercial interiors, Building types
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its(...)
Parallel cities: a multilevel metropolis
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"Parallel Cities" examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social utopian thinkers and 20th-century Soviet Constructivist architectural circles to its incubation in postwar London, its theorization by members of CIAM and Team 10, and its eventual dissemination to North America and Asia, where extensive systems were built in cities such as Minneapolis, Calgary and Hong Kong.
Urban Theory
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Castillo closely follows the course of this escalating rivalry between competing consumer cultures through the 1950s, concluding that the Soviet bloc's inability to make good on the claim that it could emulate goods and living standards offered by the West was a contributing factor in communism's eventual demise. Using a mosaic of sources ranging from recently(...)
Cold war on the home front, the soft power of midcentury design
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Castillo closely follows the course of this escalating rivalry between competing consumer cultures through the 1950s, concluding that the Soviet bloc's inability to make good on the claim that it could emulate goods and living standards offered by the West was a contributing factor in communism's eventual demise. Using a mosaic of sources ranging from recently declassified government documents to homemaking journals and popular fiction, this book contributes an engaging new perspective on midcentury modernist style and its political uses at the dawn of the cold war.
Design Theory
The power of pictures
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Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and(...)
Theory of Photography
August 2015
The power of pictures
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Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, photography, film, and posters played an essential role in the campaign to disseminate modernity and Communist ideology. From early experimental works by Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky to the modernist photojournalism of Arkady Shaikhet and Max Penson, Soviet photographers were not only in the vanguard of style and technological innovation but also radical in their integration of art and politics. Filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, and Esfir Shub pioneered cinematic techniques for works intended to mobilize viewers.
Theory of Photography
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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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'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