Main entry:

Novikov, Feliks, author.

Title & Author:

Behind the Iron Curtain : confession of a Soviet architect / Felix Novikov ; foreword by Vladimir Belogolovsky.

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2016]
©2016

Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 23 cm.

Series:

Basics ; 49

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Translated from the Russian.
Machine generated contents note: The Right to Confession -- Historical Triad of Soviet Architecture -- Avant-garde -- Architecture for Stalin -- Soviet Modernism -- Credo of the Soviet Modernist -- Origins -- Function -- Environment -- Technology -- Economics -- Process -- Logic -- Emotion -- Synthesis -- A Word about the Master -- The Formula of Architecture -- Conditions -- The Client -- Fellow Architect -- The Contractor -- Friends and Enemies -- Actual Problems -- The Unique and the Standard -- About the Replicable and Irreplaceable -- House, Block, City -- Moscow -- The Werewolf City -- Moscow Center -- Three Concepts -- Perestroika from Start to Finish -- How it Was -- My Introduction to the Profession -- Governmental Service -- Buildings on the Embankment -- Christening by Competition -- Union of the Architects of the USSR -- Palace of Pioneers -- Zelenograd -- MIET -- Competitions and the Embassy -- The Typical and the Individual -- In Uzbekistan
Note continued: About Paper and Cardboard Architecture -- The Red House that became White -- Where, When, and with Whom -- Architecture is about Everything -- A Quarter of a Century Later -- P.S. The Fate of the Soviet Legacy.

Summary:

"The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927, when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his career. Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with the government and other participants during the creative process. He further explains how Soviet design and planning institutes were organized with reference to the Union of the Architects of the USSR and describes the creative ideals of his generation of architects, who are today identified as Soviet Modernists. As a time witness, his memories cannot be recounted in their whole complexity by historians. Novikov also describes some of the conditions that affected his own creative fate and that of others. This book reflects the characteristics of Soviet life and its connections to architects' professional activity. Felix Novikov?s confessions are more than that of an architect; they give a testimony to daily life in the Soviet Union from Stalin to glasnost." Cover page 4.

ISBN:

9783869223599 (paperback)
3869223596 (paperback)

Subject:

Novikov, Feliks.
Architecture Soviet Union History.
Architecture and state Soviet Union.
Modern movement (Architecture) Soviet Union.
Architecture URSS Histoire.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) URSS.
Architecture.
Architecture and state.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Soviet Union.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
History.

Added entries:

Belogolovskiĭ, Vladimir, 1970- writer of foreword.
Basics (Berlin, Germany) ; 49.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293337
Call No.: BIB 238181
Status: Available