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Soviet Asia - Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia (Hardcover)
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Soviet Asia - Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia (Hardcover)
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A fantastic collection of Soviet Asian architecture, many
photographed here for the first time 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. Many 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. The publication includes two contextual essays, one by
Alessandro De Magistris (architect and History of Architecture
professor, University of Milan, contributor to the book Vertical
Moscow) and the other by Marco Buttino (Modern and Urban History
professor, University of Turin, specializing in the history of
social change in the USSR).
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