{"product_id":"frdric-chaubin-cccp-cosmic-communist-frdric-chaubin-9783836525190","title":"Fr馘駻ic Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed","description":"\u003cp\u003eElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Fr馘駻ic Chaubin's \u003cem\u003eCosmic Communist Constructions Photographed \u003c\/em\u003eexplores \u003cstrong\u003e90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics\u003c\/strong\u003e. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the \u003cstrong\u003efourth age of Soviet architecture\u003c\/strong\u003e, an unknown burgeoning that took place \u003cstrong\u003efrom 1970 until 1990\u003c\/strong\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no \"school\" or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a\u003cstrong\u003e chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system\u003c\/strong\u003e. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, \u003cstrong\u003earchitects went far beyond modernism, \u003c\/strong\u003egoing back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the \u003cstrong\u003eConstructivists\u003c\/strong\u003e would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an \u003cstrong\u003eexpressionist \u003c\/strong\u003eway (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the \u003cstrong\u003e\"speaking architecture\"\u003c\/strong\u003e widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are \u003cstrong\u003eextraordinary remnants of a collapsing system\u003c\/strong\u003e. In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the \u003cstrong\u003evast geography of the USSR \u003c\/strong\u003eand its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the \u003cstrong\u003eideological dreams of the country and its time\u003c\/strong\u003e, from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fr馘駻ic Chaubin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3836525194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783836525190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Taschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/21\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 13.60h x 10.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Fr馘駻ic Chaubin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44051767427327,"sku":"9783836525190","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b726bdb1-1c4d-47a4-9821-696a3289a051.jpg?v=1685015049","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/frdric-chaubin-cccp-cosmic-communist-frdric-chaubin-9783836525190","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}