Frederic Chaubin: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3836525194 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-01 |
| Language | : | English, French, German |
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"an eye-opening experience for those who assumed that Soviet architecture died with the rise of Stalin." -The New York Times."
Since 2000 he has regularly featured works combining text and photography. . The CCCP collection research was carried out from 2003 to 2010, through an intuitive and creative travel process. Frédéric Chaubin has been, for the last fifteen years, editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. This project has been shown throughout the world, from Japan to the Uni
"Incredible photographs" according to K. R.. I like to collect books about architecture - and especially those on Brutalist architecture. Many building of that design were built in the Soviet Union. Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture that was popular from the 1950s to the 70s - usually constructed out of huge amounts of concrete and steel. The J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington is an example of . Amazing USSR buildings from the fallen empire. Beautiful Photography & Great Stories ! Wow, what happens when civilizations rise and fall ?Read all about it in this amazingly well written book with huge photographs of the lost empire.It will haunt you and make you wonder: will someone write a book like this for the United States of America some day ?The images are perfect, the stories detailed and well researched, and very emotional.The most touching story wa. I recommend this book Oksana Kovtonyuk Being a native of the USSR , I wondered what is this book about - not professionally , but rather because of nostalgia and interesting titles. The book met my expectations, it is very interesting to look at all these photos - there are pictures of Soviet architectural buildings of different periods and styles, scattered in different countries , which previously formed part
A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). This puzzle of styles testifies to all the ideological dreams of the period, from the obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, the holes in the widening net, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Their diversity announced the end of the Soviet Union. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90