Main entry:

Chaubin, Frédéric, photographer, writer of added text.

Title & Author:

CCCP : cosmic communist constructions photographed / photographs and essay by Frédéric Chaubin.

Publication:

Köln : Taschen, [2011], ©2011.

Description:

308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Foreword / Paul Smith -- Introduction : Cosmic communist constructions photographed / Frédéric Chaubin -- Entertainment and culture: variations on a monumental lyricism : Concert palace, Dushanbe ; River restaurant, Dnepropetrovsk ; Dostoevsky Theater, Veliky Novgorod ; Lenin Palace, Almaty ; Drama theater, Grodno ; Puppet theater, Moscow ; Panorama cinema, Tashkent ; Linnahall; Song festival stage, Tallinn ; Music stage, Dnepropetrovsk, Lenin Memorial, Kazan ; Lenin Memorial; Art museum, Tashkent ; Concert palace, Kazan ; Archaeological museum, Tbilisi ; Rossiya two hall cinema, Yerevan -- Science and technology: power and the dramatization of the future : Academy of Science, Moscow ; Solntse solar furnace, Parkent ; October bazaar, Tashkent ; Armenia reflecting telescope, Byurakan ; TV tower, Riga ; TV tower, Tashkent ; Ministry of highways, Tbilisi ; Cybernetics study center, Saint Petersburg ; Danilovsky Market, Moscow ; Institute of scientific research, Kiev ; Polytechnic Institute; Exhibition center, Minsk ; Air terminal, Zvartnots ; Air terminal, Minsk ; Kek state farm, Rapla ; Leningrad sea terminal, Saint Petersburg ; Administrative building, Chisinau ; Dwelling, Dushanbe ; Dwelling, Dombai ; Dwelling, Dnepropetrovsk ; Air terminal, Riga ; Corn tower, Chisinau -- Sports and youth: the architects cosmic dream : Olympic regatta center, Pirita ; Yacht club; Jubileiny palace of sports, Saint Petersburg ; Swimming pool, Sventoji ; Druzhba sporting hall; Cycling race track, Moscow ; Pioneers' palace, Dnepropetrovsk ; Pioneers' palace, Almaty ; Pioneers' palace, Moscow ; Prototype state farm, Juknaiciai ; Cross-country skiing resort / Otepaa ; Circus, Bishkek ; Prometheus youth camp, Bogatiria ; Bobsleigh stand, Sigulda ; Circus, Kazan ; Circus, Dnepropetrovsk ; Circus, Dushanbe ; Circus, Moscow ; Circus, Tashkent ; Public garden, Dushanbe ; Circus Chisinau.
Health and resorts: from seaside phalansteries to hidden villas : Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta ; Uzbekistan Hotel, Tashkent ; Rest house, Sevan ; Arasan public bath; Kazakhstan Hotel; Sanatorium, Almaty ; Hydrotherapic sanatorium, Druskininkai ; Children's health resort basin, Alder ; Andropov Villa, Valgeranna ; Academy of science cottage, Palanga ; Lipki summer camp, Tula ; Neringa rest house; Zilvinas rest house, Palanga ; Rest house, Gudauri ; Saliyut, Kiev ; Druzhba Hotel, Viborg ; Rigas Hotel, Jurmala ; Villa Auska, Palanga ; Auksines Kopos rest house, Sventoji -- Rites and symbols: theatricality as a vector of emotion : Palace of weddings, Almaty ; Palace of weddings, Bishkek ; Palace of weddings, Kiev ; Church, Klaipeda ; Palace of weddings, Tbilisi ; Palace of weddings, Vilnius ; Park of memory, Kiev ; Batman cornice, Tbilisi ; Ceramic, Tashkent ; Genocide memorial, Yerevan ; Funerarium, Kaunas ; Funerarium, Nida ; Panoramic view-point, Krestovsky ; IX Fort memorial, Kaunas ; House of Soviets, Jaroslavl ; House of Soviets, Kaliningrad ; Fraternity arch, Kiev ; Revival monument, Aparan ; Russian Embassy, Habana ; Grand stand, Tbilisi.
Essay and captions in English, French, and German.

Summary:

Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in 14 former Soviet Republics which express what could be considered as the fourth age of Soviet architecture. They reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990.

ISBN:

9783836525190
3836525194

Subject:

Sovetskaja Associacija Meždunarodnogo Prava
Architecture Soviet Union Pictorial works.
Architecture URSS Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture.
Architektur
Architekturfotografie
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271959
Call No.: BIB 205238
Status: Available