Russia / Richard Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Richard, author.

Series:

Modern architectures in history.

Modern Architectures in History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Russia--History.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2015.

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive account of Russia's architectural production from the late nineteenth century to the present, explaining how its architecture was both shaped by and came to embody Russia's rapid cultural, economic, and social revolutions over the past century.             Richard Anderson looks at Russia's complex relationship to global architectural culture, exploring the country's central presence in the Rationalism and Constructivism movements of the 1920s, as well as its role as a key protagonist during the Cold War. Looking deeply at Soviet Russia, he brings the relationship between architecture and socialism into focus through detailed case studies that situate buildings and architectural concepts within the socialist milieu of Soviet society. He tracks the way Russian architectural institutions departed from the course of modernism being developed in capitalist countries, and he reappraises the architecture of the Stalin era and the final decades of the USSR. Finally, he traces the influence of Soviet conventions on contemporary Russian architecture-which is now a more heterogeneous mix of approaches and styles- and how it made a lasting and little-known impact on territories extending from the Middle East, to Central Asia, and into China.             A bold new assessment of Russia's architectural legacy and contemporary contributions, this book is a fascinating exploration of a tumultuous place-and the creativity that has come from it. 

Contents:

Cover

Russia: Modern Architectures In History

Imprint Page

Contents

Introduction

One: National Forms, Rational Techniques, 1861-95

Two: Style, Innovation And Tradition, 1896-1916

Three: Laboratories Of Soviet Architecture, 1917-23

Four: Socialist Construction, 1924-31

Five: Architecture And Stalin's Revolution, 1932-41

Six: World War, Cold War, 1941-53

Seven: Architecture Without Excess, 1954-68

Eight: Architecture In Developed Socialism, 1969-82

Nine: From Perestroika To 'Capitalist Realism', 1983 To The Present

References

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Photo Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2017).

ISBN:

9781780235547

1780235542

OCLC:

967881922