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Soviet Asia / Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conte, Roberto, author, photographer.
- Perego, Stefano, 1984- author, photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Central Asia.
- Soviet Union.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Soviet Union.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Asia, Central.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Soviet Union--Pictorial works.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Asia, Central--Pictorial works.
- Architecture.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 17 x 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Soviet Asia : Soviet modernist architecture in Central Asia
- Place of Publication:
- London : Fuel Design & Publishing, 2019.
- Summary:
- Soviet Asia' explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR. The resulting images showcase the majestic, largely unknown, modernist buildings of the region. Museums, housing complexes, universities, circuses, ritual palaces - all were constructed using a composite aesthetic. Influenced by Persian and Islamic architecture, pattern and mosaic motifs articulated a connection with Central Asia. Grey concrete slabs were juxtaposed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved forms: the brutal designs normally associated with Soviet-era architecture were reconstructed with Eastern characteristics.0Many of the buildings shown in 'Soviet Asia' are recorded here for the first time, making this book an important document, as despite the recent revival of interest in Brutalist and Modernist architecture, a number of them remain under threat of demolition.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0995745552
- 9780995745551
- OCLC:
- 1054000407
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