Imagine Moscow
Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution
Published on 15. March 2017
Book
Hardback
978-1-872005-36-2 (ISBN)
Description
Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution explores Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and early 1930s. Featuring rarely seen material, this book portrays an idealistic vision of the Soviet capital that was never realised.
Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks, the book explores how these schemes reflected changes in everyday life and society following the revolution. Large-scale architectural plans, models and drawings are placed alongside propaganda posters, textiles and porcelain, contextualising the transformation of a city reborn as the new capital of the USSR and the international centre of socialism.
Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer, this book includes essays by Richard Anderson, Jean-Louis Cohen and Deyan Sudjic, which address a range of important themes in early Soviet architecture that remain relevant today.
Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks, the book explores how these schemes reflected changes in everyday life and society following the revolution. Large-scale architectural plans, models and drawings are placed alongside propaganda posters, textiles and porcelain, contextualising the transformation of a city reborn as the new capital of the USSR and the international centre of socialism.
Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer, this book includes essays by Richard Anderson, Jean-Louis Cohen and Deyan Sudjic, which address a range of important themes in early Soviet architecture that remain relevant today.
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Eszter Steierhoffer is Senior Curator at the Design Museum and editor, among other books, of Home Futures: Living in Yesterday's Tomorrow (Design Museum Publishing, 2018).
Deyan Sudjic is a British writer, founder of Blueprint Magazine, former editor for Domus, former design and architecture critic for The Observer, an author published by imprints such as Penguin and Phaidon, and currently Director of the Design Museum in London.
Richard Anderson is Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Russia: Modern Architectures in History (2015) and co-author of Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-1935 (2005).
Jean-Louis Cohen is Chair of the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, as well as guest professor at the College de France. His forty books include Architecture in Uniform (2011), The Future of Architecture Since 1889 (2012), and Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes (2013).
Deyan Sudjic is a British writer, founder of Blueprint Magazine, former editor for Domus, former design and architecture critic for The Observer, an author published by imprints such as Penguin and Phaidon, and currently Director of the Design Museum in London.
Richard Anderson is Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Russia: Modern Architectures in History (2015) and co-author of Architecture in Print: Design and Debate in the Soviet Union, 1919-1935 (2005).
Jean-Louis Cohen is Chair of the History of Architecture at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, as well as guest professor at the College de France. His forty books include Architecture in Uniform (2011), The Future of Architecture Since 1889 (2012), and Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes (2013).