Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences / Alla Vronskaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vronskaya, Alla, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Architecture and science.

Modern movement (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 pages)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Summary:

Explores how Soviet architects reimagined the built environment through the principles of the human sciences During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. Architecture of Life delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. Envisioning the built environment as innately connected to social evolution, their methods incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, personality theory, and studies in spatial perception, all of which were integrated into an ideology that grounded functional design firmly within the attributes of the individual. A comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, Architecture of Life explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways in which it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured. .

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Vronskaya, Alla Architecture of Life

ISBN:

9781452967134