Products tagged with Architecture

Brutal East is a kit of illustrated cut-out paper models, celebrating the post-war architecture of central and eastern Europe, that allows you to playfully explore and reconstruct some of the most controversial edifices erected behind the Iron Curtain.

Nearly thirty years after the fall of the USSR, the word "Soviet" should be meaningless. Strangely, though, it endures, former Soviet environs define themselves for or against it. Does that experience mean anything today? This book attempts to find out.

This book documents over 45 sanatoriums and their unconventional treatments. From Armenia to Uzbekistan, it represents the most comprehensive survey to date of this fascinating and previously overlooked Soviet institution.

An astonishing photographic record of a form of wooden architecture rapidly vanishing from the post-Soviet landscape

The Soviet city that was never built: six visions of Moscow from the great architects of Soviet Russia

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.

Russia’s forgotten world of avant-garde public signage―the latest in Fuel’s collectible Soviet series

Soviet vernacular architecture across Georgia, Ukraine and Russia itself

William Craft Brumfield explores the architecture and landscape of Imperial Russia through the photography of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky and "restored" realities.

This engaging book allows readers to explore and learn about the brutalist architecture erected in the former Eastern Bloc, and build some of their most intriguing edifices, from the massive housing estates in Moscow to the brutal skyline of Tbilisi.

Soviet Asia explores Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR.

Photographer Frédéric Chaubin shows us ninety buildings, sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics, which express what he considers to be the "fourth age" of Soviet architecture