Soviet Asia
Autor Roberto Conte, Stefano Perego Editat de Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrellen Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 mai 2019
SovietAsiaexplorestheSovietmodernistarchitectureofCentralAsia.ItalianphotographersRobertoConteandStefanoPeregocrossedtheformerSovietrepublicsofKazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,UzbekistanandTajikistan,documentingbuildingsconstructedfromthe1950suntilthefalloftheUSSR.
Theresultingimagesshowcasethemajestic,largelyunknown,modernistbuildingsoftheregion.Museums,housingcomplexes,universities,circuses,ritualpalaces--allwereconstructedusingacompositeaesthetic.InfluencedbyPersianandIslamicarchitecture,patternandmosaicmotifsarticulatedaconnectionwithCentralAsia.Grayconcreteslabswerejuxtaposedwithcolourfultilingandrectilinearshapesbrokenbyornatecurvedforms:thebrutaldesignsnormallyassociatedwithSoviet-eraarchitecturewerereconstructedwithEasterncharacteristics.
ManyofthebuildingsshowninSovietAsiaarerecordedhereforthefirsttime,makingthisbookanimportantdocument,as,despitetherecentrevivalofinterestinBrutalistandmodernistarchitecture,anumberofthemremainunderthreatofdemolition.ThepublicationincludestwocontextualessaysbyAlessandroDeMagistrisandMarcoButtino.
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ISBN-10: 0995745552
Pagini: 191
Dimensiuni: 206 x 168 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Thames & Hudson
Colecția FUEL
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BrutalismEast:majesticconcretemeetsornamentandcolorintherevelatoryworldofSovietAsianarchitecture
SovietAsiaexplorestheSovietmodernistarchitectureofCentralAsia.ItalianphotographersRobertoConteandStefanoPeregocrossedtheformerSovietrepublicsofKazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,UzbekistanandTajikistan,documentingbuildingsconstructedfromthe1950suntilthefalloftheUSSR.
Theresultingimagesshowcasethemajestic,largelyunknown,modernistbuildingsoftheregion.Museums,housingcomplexes,universities,circuses,ritualpalaces--allwereconstructedusingacompositeaesthetic.InfluencedbyPersianandIslamicarchitecture,patternandmosaicmotifsarticulatedaconnectionwithCentralAsia.Grayconcreteslabswerejuxtaposedwithcolourfultilingandrectilinearshapesbrokenbyornatecurvedforms:thebrutaldesignsnormallyassociatedwithSoviet-eraarchitecturewerereconstructedwithEasterncharacteristics.
ManyofthebuildingsshowninSovietAsiaarerecordedhereforthefirsttime,makingthisbookanimportantdocument,as,despitetherecentrevivalofinterestinBrutalistandmodernistarchitecture,anumberofthemremainunderthreatofdemolition.ThepublicationincludestwocontextualessaysbyAlessandroDeMagistrisandMarcoButtino.