Alma-Ata. A Guide to Soviet Modernist Architecture. 1955-1991
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In the book of architecture historians, Anna Bronovitsky and Nikolai Malinin and photographer Yuri Kalmin, more than 60 objects came from the circus and market to the palaces of culture and housing - in a variety of architectural styles created between the Khrushchev reform and the collapse of the USSR. Anna Bronovitskaya and Nikolai Malinin examine each building in a wide context of cultural, social and political history. In their study, the authors relied both on documents and an interview with Alma-Ata architects, historians, today and former residents of the city. Photography of Yuri Palmin, revealing the aesthetics of buildings or fixing their distortion, is supplemented by rich archival material - drawings, design prospects, historical photographs. The architectural guide can also be considered as a book about the history of the "Golden Age" of the old capital of Kazakhstan, an international and enlightened city with its unique face, attracting talented architects and artists from different ends of the Soviet Union.
Today Alma-Ata can be called the "capital of Soviet modernism". If the old rivals in terms of architecture-Yerevan and Kiev, Tashkent and Minsk-lost the legacy of the 1960-1980s, in Alma-Ata it did not suffer such severe losses: in 1997, the capital"s functions were advanced by Astana, which took up the architectural representation of independent Kazakhstan . Alma-Ata remains the current Museum of Soviet Modernism, where you can see the first transparent library in the world and the first postmodern skyscraper in the USSR, and a dam, built by the most powerful directed explosion in history.
Edition in English
Today Alma-Ata can be called the "capital of Soviet modernism". If the old rivals in terms of architecture-Yerevan and Kiev, Tashkent and Minsk-lost the legacy of the 1960-1980s, in Alma-Ata it did not suffer such severe losses: in 1997, the capital"s functions were advanced by Astana, which took up the architectural representation of independent Kazakhstan . Alma-Ata remains the current Museum of Soviet Modernism, where you can see the first transparent library in the world and the first postmodern skyscraper in the USSR, and a dam, built by the most powerful directed explosion in history.
Edition in English
Author:
Author:Bronovitskaya Anna
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Cover:Cover with valves
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- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Languages
- Category:Reference books
ISBN:
ISBN:9788090671492
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