(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028246)
Throughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs. Russia has the largest forested zone on the planet...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110710656)
Little is known of Russian architects in-depth engagement with Ibero-Islamic architecture, especially the medieval Nasrid palaces of the Alhambra in Granada, in the so-called Moorish Revival. This study, rich in material, analyzes 19th-century Or...Lasīt vairāk
A new English-language contribution to Moscows architectural history, newly researched and detailing the history of one house from its construction to its recent restoration New discoveries about the house and its owner, and in p...Lasīt vairāk
For generations, the trilogy of the Kremlin, Red Square, and the GUM department store marked the undisputed centre of Moscow. The last decades brought sweeping changes to the Russian capital. Today the biggest city in Europe and undoub...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation. The concept of future cities is associated with several important trends. The first trend is the sustain...Lasīt vairāk
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn 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 c...Lasīt vairāk
North Caucasus:A Pioneering Piece of Literature This is the first ever English-language architectural guide to this region that remains terra incognita for many even in our globalized times. Architecturally the North Caucasus is home t...Lasīt vairāk
Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital. While in other Soviet cities and republics monumental mosaics became common in the 1960s, in Moscow mosaic was used for art-deco works and social...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an overview of Russian and international experience in developing the concept of future cities and its practical implementation. The concept of future cities is associated with several important trends. The first trend is the sustain...Lasīt vairāk
The post-Soviet republics seen over four different seasons, by acclaimed Russian photographer, Instagram sensation and Soviet Cities author Arseniy KotovIn Soviet Seasons, Arseniy Kotov reveals unfamiliar aspe...Lasīt vairāk
The Soviet avant-garde architecture of the 1920s to the mid-1930s has increasingly been attracting attention from researchers worldwide. Yet, in spite of this, entire regions remain unstudied. One of these is the south of Russia. Bas...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Dec-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691178905)
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraper-- An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project....Lasīt vairāk
In 1931, architect Ivan Il&;ic Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometers northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city stood in the traditional territory of speakers of the indigenous language of Ket. To...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the...Lasīt vairāk
Chronicles in Stone is a study of the powerful and pervasive myth of the Russian Northwest, its role in forming Soviet and Russian identities, and its impact on local communities. Combining detailed archival research, participant observatio...Lasīt vairāk
Third in the series of facsimile publications of the work of one of modernisms most famous architects, Moisei Ginzburg, following on from Dwelling (2017) and Style and Epoch (2018)Published in partnership with Ginzburg Architects,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Aug-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487505523)
In August of 1836 Alexander Pushkin wrote a poem now popularly known simply as Monument. He died a few months later in January of 1837. In the decades following his death, the poem Monument was transformed into a statue in central Moscow: the...Lasīt vairāk
Norway and Russia have been closely related through the ages, both geographically and historically, and have experienced similar problems relating to climate, building maintenance and national wooden architecture. As a result, the parallel study o...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of thirteen vignettes addresses several important episodes in the history of Russian temporary architecture and public art, from the royal festivals during the times of Peter the Great up to the recent venues including the Soc...Lasīt vairāk
