Architecture

The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932 by Richard Pare. Monacelli, 2007. Hardcover, 360 p.

Documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Soviet regime, these important buildings have remained unknown and unappreciated.

Richard Pare's photographs reveal the powerful forms of these structures, some still in use but many now abandoned and decayed. Massive industrial complexes like the Dnieper River Dam and MoGES, which supplies electricity to the city of Moscow; vast communal houses for workers, including Ginzburg's Narkomfin; commercial buildings and government offices; and smaller clubs and theaters were all built in this brief period.

In an incisive essay, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen surveys the history of the period, providing a context for the emergence of this startling new architecture in parallel to contemporary experiments in Europe.

Ричард Пэр. Потерянный авангард. Русская модернистская архитектура 1922-1932. Фотоальбом. Издательство: Татлин, 2007 г. Суперобложка, 348 стр. (The lost avant-garde. Russian modernist architecture 1922-1932. Photoalbum. By Richard Pare. "Tatlin", 2007. Dust jacket, 348 p.)

Documentary evidence of the creative work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union in the period after the 1917 Revolution and the following civil war. The most radical buildings of the XXth century were built in less than a decade byt a small group of architects, who inveted a new architectural language for the new social goals of their modern life.

The book includes 73 buildings, from the Shabolovskaya radio tower in Moscow and up to the Lenin mausoleum. Buildings are presented from Ivenovo, Yekateringurg, Kiev, Kharkov, Zaporozhie, Nizhniy Novgorod, Sochi and Baku. (from editorial review by Ozon)