archatlas:Soviet (Modernist Architecture in Central) Asia Soviet Asia. Soviet Modernist Architectu
archatlas: Soviet (Modernist Architecture in Central) Asia Soviet Asia. Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia is a volume, put out by the guys at the British publisher Fuel, that documents the architecture built from the 1950s until the fall of the Soviet Union in a few of the regions of central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Through the snapshots of photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego – who immortalize many buildings now slated for demolition – you get a feel for how the Soviet architecture of central Asia was influenced and contaminated by Persian and Islamic compositional languages. To such an extent as to be able to speak of “ornate brutalism” that distinguishes itself and assumes its own identity with respect to the urban and architectural landscape of Moscow and its neighboring areas. -- source link
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