Somers, Elian.

Border theories / [photography, Elian Somers ; texts, Elian Somers, Hester van Gent, Kerstin Winking].

1st ed.

[Amsterdam] : Fw:Books, [2013]
©2013.

111, viii pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 35 cm

By using photography and historical documentation, Elian Somers investigates in 'Border theories' the relationship between architecture, politics and history in three Russian cities. During the 20th century, Birobidzhan, Kaliningrad and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were designed, built and redeveloped under the Soviet regime, with the utopian vision of a socialist city as the guiding principle for each. By examining the evolution of these cities, Somers reveals how visions of urban planners, nourished by political convictions, can control but never fully overwrite a city and its history.

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Somers, Elian Exhibitions.
Cities and towns Soviet Union Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Borderlands Russia (Federation) Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Architecture and state Soviet Union Exhibitions.
Régions frontalières Russie Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Architecture and state.
Borderlands.
Buildings.
Cities and towns.
Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Birobidzhan (Russia) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
I︠U︡zhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Russia (Federation)
Russia (Federation) Birobidzhan.
Russia (Federation) I︠U︡zhno-Sakhalinsk.
Russia (Federation) Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ)
Soviet Union.

Exhibition Publications.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition, pictorial works.

Gent, Hester van.
Winking, Kerstin.
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

Location: Library main 283061
Call No.: BIB 221054
Status: Available