Reshaping Russian Architecture: Western Technology, Utopian Dreams
William Craft Brumfield
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.
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Година:
1990
Издателство:
Cambridge University Press
Език:
english
Страници:
222
ISBN 10:
052139418X
ISBN 13:
9780521394185
Серия:
Woodrow Wilson Center Series
Файл:
PDF, 58.41 MB
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english, 1990