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The Urban Landscape of Soviet Monotowns
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The Urban Landscape of Soviet Monotowns
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In a new photographic essay titled
Soviet Asia, and published by FUEL, Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego explore the Brutalist heritage in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, detailing the regional variations of Soviet modernism in Central Asia. The photographers document this architectural legacy constructed between 1950 and 1991, the year of the USSR’s dissolution. Much of this architecture is mainly unknown to the broader audience, with several buildings included for the first time in a photographic documentary of Soviet architecture.
The urban development in Soviet Central Asia took on a specific form, drawing from the Persian and Islamic influences which shaped the region’s identity and architecture long before the assimilation into USSR. Architects from Kyiv, Moscow and Leningrad were brought to the capitals of Soviet Central Asia to unfold architecture and urbanism in the spirit of the Soviet Union. However, local architects
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Brutalism is a deeply dividing architectural style - a subcategory of the Modernist movement that featured bare concrete finishes, unusual shapes, and an undoubtedly unique aesthetic. Whilst emerging into prominence in 1950s Great Britain, the most iconic examples of this architectural style are arguably found in Eastern Europe - particularly in the territory formerly known as Yugoslavia.
Seeking to rebuild a country greatly affected by the second world war, the socialist Yugoslavian government sought to reconstruct the state, precipitating the construction of concrete residential blocks, civic centres, and monuments - a visual identity poised between the east and the west. Alexey Kozhenkov’s photo series Spaces for Winds is an exploration of the Brutalist architecture of present-day Serbia, particularly the architecture of the outskirts of Belgrade. A muted colour palette, the presence of aggregated forms, and an overwhelming sense of scale typify the photographs in Kozhe
Brutalist Belgrade: Through the Eyes of Alexey Kozhenkov
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