Utopia & collapse : rethinking Metsamor : the Armenian atomic city / edited by Katharina Roters and Sarhat Petrosyan ; photographs by Katharina Roters ; research by Sarhat Petrosyan ; with texts from Jörg H. Gleiter [and six others] ; drawings by Martin Mikaelyan.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Zurich : Park Books, [2018]
©2018

Description:

235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: Reading the City -- Residential -- Educational -- Music School -- Hotel -- House of Culture -- Hospital -- Sports Complex and Pond -- The Modernisms of Metsamor / Misak Khostikyan -- The Atomograd's Promises / Ievgeniia Gubkina -- Soviet Ideology, Utopian Futures, and Daily Transformations of Urban Space in Metsamor / Hamlet Melkumyan -- Gazebo Fragments / Jozsef Szolnoki -- The Master and Metsamor / Sarhat Petrosyan.

Summary:

"Utopia and Collapse documents the rise and fall of Metsamor. The book brings together an oral history of Metsamor with essays by Sarhat Petrosyan and a team of contributors and art and photographic research by Katharina Roters, including more than one hundred photographs. Among the topics discussed are Armenia's cultural and architectural histories; the typology of Soviet atomograds, or atomic cities; and the phenomenon of modern ruins. Although today the power plant's workers live in a partly built failed utopia, Metsamor stands as examples of the highly idiosyncratic Armenian variety of Soviet Modernism of the 1960s and '70s, making this a fascinating story for anyone with an interest in Soviet-era buildings and architecture."--University of Chicago Press website

ISBN:

9783038600947 (hd. bd.)
3038600946 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Architecture Armenia (Republic) Metsamor.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture.
Architecture, Modern.
Armenia (Republic)
Metsamor (Armenia) History 20th century.
Armenia (Republic) Metsamor.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Roters, Katharina, 1969- editor, photographer.
Petrosyan, Sarhat, editor.
Gleiter, Jörg H., 1960- writer of supplementary textual content.
Mikaelyan, Martin, illustrator.

Utopia and collapse
Added title in Armenian: Utopia ev p'luzum

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302441
Call No.: BIB 248655
Status: Available

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