New book visits the work of Stalin's architect Boris Iofan
A new book by Deyan Sudjic, Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow, chronicles the life and work of architect Boris Iofan (1891 – 1976)
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A new book by Deyan Sudjic, Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow, chronicles the life and work of architect Boris Iofan (1891 – 1976)
A new book by Deyan Sudjic, Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow, chronicles the life and work of architect Boris Iofan (1891 – 1976)
His work helped define the grand style of Soviet buildings, but was Boris Iofan a stooge, a propagandist or a victim of circumstance?
. Helmut Jahn, a German-born architect who designed buildings around the world but was most influential in his adopted hometown, Chicago, where he conceived of an extravagant downtown home to state government and the United Airlines terminal at O’Hare International Airport, died on Saturday in a traffic accident near the horse farm where he lived, in St. Charles, Illinois. He was 81. His wife, Deborah (Lampe) Jahn, confirmed the death. He had been riding his bicycle in suburban Campton Hills when he was struck by two cars that were heading in opposite directions. A news release from the l...