Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

Reshaping Russian Architecture examines the development of twentieth-century Russian architecture as it relates to the transformation of the imperial Russia into an industrialised Soviet empire and shows how Western notions of style and technology were assimilated on a massive scale into a uniquely Russian vision. Among the issues examined in articles by four distinguished historians of architecture and urban planning are: the decline of imperial architectural design during the mid-nineteenth century as occasioned by fundamental changes in aesthetic values and the social structure; the denouncement of the European capitalist economic system and consequent rejection of modern urban architecture during the period immediately prior to the 1917 revolution; and utopian concepts of modern urban design that were implemented during the interwar years of phenomenal industrial development. An important contribution to our understanding of Russian and Soviet culture in a critical period of its evolution, Reshaping Russian Architecture will also appeal to those interested in modern architecture and urban planning in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052139418X
• ISBN13: 9780521394185
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 7.5"