Main entry:

Vronskaya, Alla, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences / Alla Vronskaya.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

Description:

xxxii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-261) and index.
Life : an ideology for modernity -- Space : formalist architectural pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS – Orientation : El Lissitzky's evolutionist urbanism – Fitness : Nikolay Ladovsky's architectural psychotechnics – Process : organicist aesthetics of soviet standardization – Energy : Soviet wall-painting and the economy of perception – Personality : Gorky Park as a factory of dealienation -- History : From the monistic to the terrestrial..

Summary:

"During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to various principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. Architecture of Life delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of their radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements that were developing concurrently across the globe. Examining the theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, as well as those of their lesser-known colleagues, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences. Envisioning the built environment as innately connected to social evolution, their methods incorporated aspects of psychoanalysis, personality theory, and studies in spatial perception, all of which were integrated into an ideology that grounded functional design firmly w₄ithin the attributes of the individual. A comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, Architecture of Life explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways in which it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured."-- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9781517912260 (hardcover)
1517912261 (hardcover)
9781517912277 (paperback)
151791227X (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture and science Soviet Union.
Modern movement (Architecture) Soviet Union.
Architecture Human factors Soviet Union.
Architecture et sciences URSS.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) URSS.
Architecture Facteurs humains URSS.
Architecture and science
Architecture Human factors
Modern movement (Architecture)
Soviet Union

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315992
Call No.: 315992
Copy: 1
Status: Available