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Pricegore & Yinka Ilori - Dulwich Pavilion (Paperback): Dingle Price, Alex Gore Pricegore & Yinka Ilori - Dulwich Pavilion (Paperback)
Dingle Price, Alex Gore; Contributions by Job Floris, Sumayya Vally; Photographs by Sophie Roycroft
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dulwich Picture Gallery in the south of London is the world's first purpose-built public art gallery. Founded in 1811, when Sir Francis Bourgeois RA bequeathed his collection of old masters "for the inspection of the public", it opened its famous building designed by John Soane in 1817. To mark the museum's bicentenary in 2017, Dulwich Picture Gallery commissioned a first temporary summer pavilion on its grounds. For the second edition of the Dulwich Pavilion in 2019, the commission was awarded to London-based architects Dingle Price and Alex Gore in collaboration with British artist Yinka Ilori. This elegant, large-size book documents this piece of built poetry in a series of striking, atmospheric photographs by Sophie Roycroft. The concise essays by Job Floris and Sumayya Vally situate the project within a social, political, and cultural context, complemented by technical details and selected plans and drawings on and inside the book's cover.

Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities 2e (Hardcover, 2nd Edition): Rl Kobus Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities 2e (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Rl Kobus
R2,314 Discovery Miles 23 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Essential information for the design of healthcare facilities
Building Type Basics for Healthcare Facilities, Second Edition is your one-stop reference for the essential information you need to confidently begin the design process and successfully complete a healthcare project, large or small, on time and within budget. Leading architects from across the United States share their firsthand knowledge in order to guide you through all aspects of healthcare facility design, with an emphasis on what you need to do to get started quickly.
This edition is revised with multiple new healthcare project examples completed this century, more information on engineering requirements, and background on evolving sustainability and technology issues. It begins with an assessment of the healthcare industry's current and future needs, focusing on how those needs affect architecture. Next you get critical information and guidelines that enable you to create successful designs for inpatient, outpatient, and long-term care facilities. Coverage includes clinics, emergency departments, ambulatory care units, specialty centers, as well as facilities designed for adaptive reuse or the assimilation of future technologies.
This quick reference:
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Addresses twenty key questions that arise when launching a healthcare facility design project
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Offers insight from leaders in the industry based on their own design experience
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Provides hundreds of project photographs, diagrams, floor plans, sections, and details
Not only does this book offer current, authoritative information, its comprehensive coverage and logical organization also save you countless hours of research.
Building Type Basics books provide architects with the essentials needed to jump-start specialized facilities design. Each volume features leading experts in the field who address the issues that shape the early phases of a project in a convenient, easy-to-use format.

Architecture of Place - Culture, Community & Continuity (Hardcover): John Melvin Architecture of Place - Culture, Community & Continuity (Hardcover)
John Melvin; Foreword by Timothy Brittain-Catlin
R919 R854 Discovery Miles 8 540 Save R65 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In Architecture of Place, John Melvin, one of our most experienced architects and town planners, considers aspects of place-making and many of those ideas that have formed our approach to housing and the city. The architect and historian, Timothy Brittain-Catlin, claims that Melvin's own work draws inspiration from the buildings he admires, but also from the intellectual world around him. The essays on Ludwig Wittgenstein look at this great 20th century thinker, and find in his philosophy an important guide for our times. The penultimate chapter is on the emerging New Town of Tornagrain. Melvin praises the vision, faith and enterprise that is making possible this investment in the future of Building Beautiful and the creation of social well-being.

Acoustics-A Textbook for Engineers and Physicists - Volume I: Fundamentals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st... Acoustics-A Textbook for Engineers and Physicists - Volume I: Fundamentals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Jerry H. Ginsberg
R4,344 Discovery Miles 43 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook systematically addresses all core topics in physical and engineering acoustics. Written by a well-known textbook author with 39 years of experience performing research, teaching, and mentoring in the field, it is specially designed to provide maximum support for learning. Presentation begins from a foundation that does not assume prior study of acoustics and advanced mathematics. Derivations are rigorous, thoroughly explained, and often innovative. Important concepts are discussed for their physical implications and their implementation. Many of the examples are mini case studies that address systems students will find to be interesting and motivating for continued study. Step-by-step explanations accompany example solutions. They address both the significance of the example and the strategy for approaching it. Wherever techniques arise that might be unfamiliar to the reader, they are explained in full. Volume I contains 186 homework exercises, accompanied by a detailed solutions manual for instructors. This text, along with its companion, Volume II: Applications, provides a knowledge base that will enable the reader to begin undertaking research and to work in core areas of acoustics.

Guide to Building Natural Swimming Pools (Hardcover): Michael Littlewood Guide to Building Natural Swimming Pools (Hardcover)
Michael Littlewood
R1,501 R1,188 Discovery Miles 11 880 Save R313 (21%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is specifically designed for those interested in creating natural swimming pools. It covers all stages, from understanding the system, management, excavation, lining, walling, plumbing, electrical, planting, structures, and last but not least, the maintenance, to ensure a successful project. Comprehensive information is presented in an easy to understand style with many illustrations showing methods of building. These are supported by the helpful inclusion of detailed scaled drawings, a plant guide with hardiness zones, and other useful information. The techniques will provide confidence to tackle the project and on completion give a huge sense of satisfaction and many hours of enjoyment.

Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul - The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath (Paperback): Nina Macaraig Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul - The Biographical Memoir of a Turkish Bath (Paperback)
Nina Macaraig
R908 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R65 (7%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Bathhouses (hamams) play a prominent role in Turkish culture, because of their architectural value and social function as places of hygiene, relaxation and interaction. Continuously shaped by social and historical change, the life story of Mimar Sinan's Cemberlitas Hamami in Istanbul provides an important example: established in 1583/4, it was modernized during the Turkish Republic (since 1923) and is now a tourist attraction. As a social space shared by tourists and Turks, it is a critical site through which to investigate how global tourism affects local traditions and how places provide a nucleus of cultural belonging in a globalized world. This original study, taking a biographical approach to tell the story of a Turkish bathhouse, contributes to the fields of Islamic, Ottoman and modern Turkish cultural, architectural, social and economic history.

Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 2020 Edition (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition): Philip Jodidio Zaha Hadid. Complete Works 1979-Today. 2020 Edition (English, French, German, Hardcover, Multilingual edition)
Philip Jodidio 2
R1,985 R1,620 Discovery Miles 16 200 Save R365 (18%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid's daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing. By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture's finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects. Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an extensively updated and accessible edition covering Hadid's complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid's own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe.

Energy Optimization and Prediction in Office Buildings - A Case Study of Office Building Design in Chile (Paperback, 1st ed.... Energy Optimization and Prediction in Office Buildings - A Case Study of Office Building Design in Chile (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Carlos Rubio-Bellido, Alexis Perez-Fargallo, Jesus Pulido-Arcas
R1,722 Discovery Miles 17 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explains how energy demand and energy consumption in new buildings can be predicted and how these aspects and the resulting CO2 emissions can be reduced. It is based upon the authors' extensive research into the design and energy optimization of office buildings in Chile. The authors first introduce a calculation procedure that can be used for the optimization of energy parameters in office buildings, and to predict how a changing climate may affect energy demand. The prediction of energy demand, consumption and CO2 emissions is demonstrated by solving simple equations using the example of Chilean buildings, and the findings are subsequently applied to buildings around the globe. An optimization process based on Artificial Neural Networks is discussed in detail, which predicts heating and cooling energy demands, energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Taken together, these processes will show readers how to reduce energy demand, consumption and CO2 emissions associated with office buildings in the future. Readers will gain an advanced understanding of energy use in buildings and how it can be reduced.

A Companion to Public Art (Paperback): C K Knight A Companion to Public Art (Paperback)
C K Knight
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Companion to Public Art is the only scholarly volume to examine the main issues, theories, and practices of public art on a comprehensive scale. Edited by two distinguished scholars with contributions from art historians, critics, curators, and art administrators, as well as artists themselves Includes 19 essays in four sections: tradition, site, audience, and critical frameworks Covers important topics in the field, including valorizing victims, public art in urban landscapes and on university campuses, the role of digital technologies, jury selection committees, and the intersection of public art and mass media Contains "artist's philosophy" essays, which address larger questions about an artist's body of work and the field of public art, by Julian Bonder, eteam (Hajoe Moderegger and Franziska Lamprecht), John Craig Freeman, Antony Gormley, Suzanne Lacy, Caleb Neelon, Tatzu Nishi, Greg Sholette, and Alan Sonfist.

London Underground - Architecture, Design and History (Paperback, New Ed): David Long London Underground - Architecture, Design and History (Paperback, New Ed)
David Long; Photographs by Jane Magarigal
R476 R438 Discovery Miles 4 380 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The seminal and pioneering London Underground is more than a mass transportation network - it is a style icon, its history involving some of the most important architects and artists of their time. Exploring Frank Pick's vision through the development of Metroland to Holden's innovative designs, David Long expertly weaves the story of the Underground - its abundance of characters (some good, some not so good), design firsts and brand identity - with Jane Magarigal's atmospheric photography. From suburban expansion to Blitz bombings and Soviet adulation, this book celebrates what remains a magnificent engineering and aesthetic achievement while providing an affectionate if slightly elegiac portrait of a London which is now gone for good.

Jewel Changi Airport (Hardcover): Safdie Architects Jewel Changi Airport (Hardcover)
Safdie Architects
R906 Discovery Miles 9 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jewel Changi Airport documents the creation of a remarkable addition to one of the world's premier airports. The sinuous, faceted glass Jewel serves as Singapore's new gateway to the world, and redefines what an airport can be. Brimming with terraced plantings, lush valleys, floating bridges, art installations, shops, restaurants, and a central waterfall, Jewel is a new type of destination: part public garden and part shopping and entertainment complex. Through photos, drawings, ephemera, essays, and interviews, the book provides detailed insights on how the project came to be - from its bold vision and concept to the innovative engineering, environmental, and construction strategies employed to make it a reality.

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design - Theory and Practice of Place (Hardcover): Georgia Lindsay Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design - Theory and Practice of Place (Hardcover)
Georgia Lindsay
R4,505 Discovery Miles 45 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design showcases 18 diverse essays written by people who design, work in, and study museums, offering a variety of perspectives on this complex building type. Throughout, the authors emphasize new kinds of experiences that museum architecture helps create, connecting ideas about design at various levels of analysis, from thinking about how the building sits in the city to exploring the details of technology. With sections focusing on museums as architectural icons, community engagement through design, the role of gallery spaces in the experience of museums, disability experiences, and sustainable design for museums, the collected chapters cover topics both familiar and fresh to those interested in museum architecture. Featuring over 150 color illustrations, this book celebrates successful museum architecture while the critical analysis sheds light on important issues to consider in museum design. Written by an international range of museum administrators, architects, and researchers this collection is an essential resource for understanding the social impacts of museum architecture and design for professionals, students, and museum-lovers alike.

William Van Alen, Fred T. Lay and the Chrysler Building (Paperback): George C. Kingston William Van Alen, Fred T. Lay and the Chrysler Building (Paperback)
George C. Kingston
R1,275 R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Save R557 (44%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Chrysler Building was the result of a remarkable collaboration between William Van Alen, a dreamer whose designs challenged orthodox architecture, and Fred T. Ley, a practical builder who turned dreams into reality. Together they realized Walter P. Chrysler's vision of an iconic structure that would (for 11 months) be the tallest building in the world. Alen is recognized as one of the most innovative architects of the 20th century. Ley rose from rod man on a survey team to head one of the largest construction companies in the world. Both men participated in the architectural revolution brought about by steel frame, curtain wall construction. This book chronicles how they designed and constructed the Chrysler Building and how the experience affected the rest of their lives.

Kindergarten & School Plans (Hardcover): Various Kindergarten & School Plans (Hardcover)
Various
R567 R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Save R106 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kindergarten & School Plans has more than 140 floor plans, sections, sketches and elevations, as well as all the construction details for a total of 22 projects. The structures whose designs are included in this publication share the same function: education. Today more than ever, the function of these buildings is decisive in helping the well-being and development of students. These structures remind us of both the importance of the service they provide to society, and the need for them to accomplish their purpose in the best possible way. There is no greater evolution than adapting to the new times that we are living.

Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works Architecture (Hardcover): Brad Cloepfil Clyfford Still Museum: Allied Works Architecture (Hardcover)
Brad Cloepfil; Designed by Juliette Cezzar
R1,094 R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Clyfford Still Museum was designed by the leading architectural practice Allied Works and its founder, Brad Cloepfil. The building creates space for the voice and artistic vision of American painter Clyfford Still (1904-1980), housing the vast majority of his creative output over a sixty-year period. The museum's design is inspired by the work of Still and by its monumental context: the site is located at the intersection of prairie and mountains, within an urban district of major cultural buildings, vacant lots, historic housing, and new development. The building looks to the earth as a source of silence and profound connection to the elemental forces the artist explored through his painting. This publication presents the vision and realization of the museum from initial concepts to completion. A rich collection of stories, artifacts, documents, and conversations trace the evolution of the building and Allied Works' unique creative process. New essays and photography examine its significance within contemporary architectural discourse and the singular experience of the completed work.

International Panorama 1 (Paperback): Paolo Maggioli International Panorama 1 (Paperback)
Paolo Maggioli
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England (Paperback): John Minnis The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England (Paperback)
John Minnis; As told to Simon Hickman
R625 Discovery Miles 6 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although goods traffic accounted in many cases for a higher proportion of railway companies' revenue than passengers, the buildings associated with it have received very little attention in comparison to their passenger counterparts. They once played as important a role in distribution as the 'big sheds' near motorway junctions do today. The book shows how the basic design of goods sheds evolved early in the history of railways, and how the form of goods sheds reflected the function they performed. Although goods sheds largely functioned in the same way, there was considerable scope for variety of architectural expression in their external design. The book brings out how they varied considerably in size from small timber huts to the massive warehouses seen in major cities. It also looks at how many railway companies developed standard designs for these buildings towards the end of the 19th century and at how traditional materials such as timber, brick and stone gave way to steel and concrete in the 20th This building type is subject to a high level of threat with development pressure in urban and suburban areas for both car parking and housing having already accounted for the demise of many of these buildings. Despite this, some 600 have been identified as still extant and the book will, for the first time, provide a comprehensive gazetteer of the surviving examples.

Philosophy and Geography II - The Production of Public Space (Paperback): Andrew Light, Jonathan M Smith Philosophy and Geography II - The Production of Public Space (Paperback)
Andrew Light, Jonathan M Smith; Contributions by Edward S. Casey, Ian Chaston, Edward Dimendberg, …
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The future of public space is uncertain. Although public spaces have become increasingly shabby and crowded, novel alternatives have appeared in the form of fantastic, semi-public pleasure grounds, developed by well-heeled, crowd-pleasing entrepreneurs and devoted to profit, consumption, and self-indulgence. Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. The contributors to this volume advance this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory. Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space gives readers an enhanced appreciation of the intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our everyday environments.

Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure - Open Building in Practice (Paperback): Stephen H. Kendall Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure - Open Building in Practice (Paperback)
Stephen H. Kendall
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are designed. If functions and practices are subject to alteration, the standard approach of defining required functions and practices before acquiring facilities is obsolete. We need other starting points, working methods, and ways of collaborating. Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure presents these new approaches. Advocating an infrastructure theory of built environment transformation in which design and investment decisions are organized hierarchically and transcend short-term use, the book draws the practice and research of a number of architects from around the world. Written by experts with experience in policy making, designing, building, and managing complex healthcare environments, it shows professionals in architecture, engineering, healthcare and facilities management how to enhance the long-term usefulness of their campuses and their building stock and how to strengthen their physical assets with the capacity to accommodate a quickly evolving healthcare sector.

Warm Modernity - Indian Architecture. Building Democracy (Paperback): Maddalena D'Alfonso Warm Modernity - Indian Architecture. Building Democracy (Paperback)
Maddalena D'Alfonso
R812 R728 Discovery Miles 7 280 Save R84 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions - Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences (Hardcover): Altaf Engineer, Kathryn H.... Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions - Front Stage and Back Stage Experiences (Hardcover)
Altaf Engineer, Kathryn H. Anthony
R4,474 Discovery Miles 44 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Vast sums of money spent to design, construct, and maintain museum additions demand great accountability of museum leaders and design professionals towards visitors and employees. Museum visitors today come not only to view works of art, but also to experience museum architecture itself, resulting in most major cities competing to build new museum additions or new museum buildings to become world class tourist destinations. Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions presents post-occupancy evaluations of four high-profile museums and their additions in the United States and helps museum stakeholders understand their successes, shortcomings, and how their designs affect both visitors and employees who use them every day. The book helps decision-makers assess the short-term and long-term impacts of future proposals for new museum additions and illuminates the critical importance of investing in employee work environments, and giving serious consideration to lighting, wayfinding, accessibility, and the effects of museum fatigue that arise from the lack of public amenities. Museum leaders, curators, architects, designers, consultants, patrons of the arts and museum visitors will find this book to be a useful resource when planning and evaluating new building additions.

Global Corporate Workplaces - Implementing New Global Workplace Standards in a Local Context (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017): Martin... Global Corporate Workplaces - Implementing New Global Workplace Standards in a Local Context (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Martin Hodulak
R3,423 Discovery Miles 34 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about the currently evolving global standardization of corporate workplace models and the challenges this poses for their implementation in a local context. In recent years, multinational corporations were increasingly engaged in the development of standardized global workplace models. For their implementation and feasibility, it is decisive as how these standards fit the diverse regional workplace cultures. This topic was pursued in the course of a research project, comparing established workplaces in Germany, USA and Japan against global workplace standards of multinational corporations. The analysis confirmed the expected differences among local workplaces and on the other hand a predominant mainstream among global corporate workplace standards. Conspicuous however, are the fundamental differences between local models and corporate standards. For the implementation of global standards in local context, this implies multiple challenges on cultural, organizational and spatial level. The analysis findings provide information for assessing current projects and pinpointing optimization measures. The analysis framework further provides a tool to uncover and assess needs and restrictions for the development of future workplace models.

Pedestrian Malls, Streetscapes, and Urban Spaces (Paperback): H.M. Rubenstein Pedestrian Malls, Streetscapes, and Urban Spaces (Paperback)
H.M. Rubenstein
R3,982 Discovery Miles 39 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An analysis of the pedestrian malls built during the urban renewal period of the 60's and 70's, and of new urban open space designs. Explores the trend towards, and away from, full pedestrian malls, and analyzes newer project types, such as festival marketplaces and mixed-use urban spaces. Describes mall development processes such as feasibility analysis, planning and design. Also covers street furnishings ranging from paving, fountains and sculpture to lighting, canopies and seating. Offers updated coverage of new projects in New York, Tampa, Memphis, Louisville and Minneapolis. Also features over 250 photographs as well as detailed site plans of the projects covered.

School Buildings Rehabilitation - Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization (Paperback, 2015 ed.): Ricardo M S F... School Buildings Rehabilitation - Indoor Environmental Quality and Enclosure Optimization (Paperback, 2015 ed.)
Ricardo M S F Almeida, Vasco Peixoto de Freitas, Joao M. P. Q. Delgado
R1,733 Discovery Miles 17 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the effect of different school building rehabilitation strategies on the classrooms' indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and presents a multi-objective methodology for school building enclosure optimization combining artificial neural networks and lifecycle costs. The special features of this book are that it (a) presents the state-of-the-art in school building rehabilitation, (b) covers the IEQ assessment of several school buildings, including non-rehabilitated and rehabilitated according to different strategies; and (c) proposes a multi-objective optimization procedure. The rehabilitation of a school building should be regarded as a procedure combining a number of (sometimes conflicting) variables and objectives, including energy, IEQ and costs (initial, operational and maintenance), in the search for an "optimum solution." The main benefit of the book is that it discusses the main topics related to school building rehabilitation, presents results of the IEQ assessment on 9 school buildings and launches a discussion on how the "in-use" performance of schools is key to understanding how designed performance is actually experienced. It maps the most commonly used multi-objective algorithms and artificial neural network architectures and proposes a methodology for combining these numerical tools with dynamic building simulations and lifecycle cost analysis to optimize school building enclosures. This methodology will be of value to scientists and engineers alike, while also addressing a variety of related disciplines, such as civil and mechanical engineering, architecture and mathematics.

Moscow Monumental - Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital (Paperback): Katherine Zubovich Moscow Monumental - Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital (Paperback)
Katherine Zubovich
R942 R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Save R180 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper In the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of Stalinist society. Moscow Monumental explores how the quintessential architectural works of the late Stalin era fundamentally reshaped daily life in the Soviet capital. Drawing on a wealth of original archival research, Katherine Zubovich examines the decisions and actions of Soviet elites-from top leaders to master architects-and describes the experiences of ordinary Muscovites who found their lives uprooted by the ambitious skyscraper project. She shows how the Stalin-era quest for monumentalism was rooted in the Soviet Union's engagement with Western trends in architecture and planning, and how the skyscrapers required the creation of a vast and complex infrastructure. As laborers flooded into the city, authorities evicted and rehoused tens of thousands of city residents living on the plots selected for development. When completed in the mid-1950s, these seven ornate neoclassical buildings served as elite apartment complexes, luxury hotels, and ministry and university headquarters. Moscow Monumental tells a story that is both local and broadly transnational, taking readers from the streets of interwar Moscow and New York to the marble-clad halls of the bombastic postwar structures that continue to define the Russian capital today.

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