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Border theories / [photography, Elian Somers ; texts, Elian Somers, Hester van Gent, Kerstin Winking].
Fine Arts Library HT145.S58 S66 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Somers, Elian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--Soviet Union.
- Cities and towns.
- Borderlands--Russia (Federation).
- Borderlands.
- Architecture and state--Soviet Union.
- Architecture and state.
- Soviet Union.
- Buildings--Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai͡a oblastʹ).
- Buildings.
- Russia (Federation)--Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ).
- Buildings--Russia (Federation)--Birobidzhan.
- Russia (Federation)--Birobidzhan.
- Buildings--Russia (Federation)--I͡Uzhno-Sakhalinsk.
- Russia (Federation)--I︠U︡zhno-Sakhalinsk.
- Russia (Federation).
- Genre:
- Exhibition publications.
- Physical Description:
- 111, viii pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 35 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Published to accompany an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Feb. 16-Apr. 7, 2013.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789490119195
- 9490119199
- OCLC:
- 855522762
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