Pioneers of Soviet architecture

Pioneers of Soviet architecture: the search for new solutions in the 1920s and 1930s

Classicism, the moderne (Art Nouveau), engineering structures and the new architecture
Interaction between architecture and fine art
The search for a new artistic language: the early period
Rationalism
Constructivism
Creative innovation in the second half of the 1920s: teachers, schools, Groupings
The problem of nationalism and internationalism
Innovative and tradition - debates of the early 1930s
The socialist pattern of settlement and town-planning concepts
Reconstruction of the way of life and development of new forms of dwelling
New types of buildings for social and administrative purposes in the Soviet union
Workers' clubs as centre of a new socialist culture

Design of new public arenas: problems posed by Agit art, mass spectacle and scientific displays
Development of communal supply and service systems
Education and science
Sport and leisure
New architecture and its trends
The leaders of the new direction
Architectural associations of the new direction

Published London : Thames & Hudson, 1987

Language English

Material 618 p.

ISBN 0500341028

NA 1188 K453 1987 C.1

TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack

NA 1188 K453 1987 C.2

TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack