{"product_id":"frederic-chaubin-cccp-cosmic-communist-constructions-photographed-40th-ed-hardback-book","title":"Frederic Chaubin 'CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th Ed.' Hardback Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"modal-body\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"modal-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"read-more__description--subtitle\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArchitectural remnants of the USSR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"read-more__description--content\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCosmic Communist Constructions Photographed \u003c\/em\u003eexplores \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics\u003c\/strong\u003e. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efourth age of Soviet architecture\u003c\/strong\u003e, an unknown burgeoning that took place \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom 1970 until 1990\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system\u003c\/strong\u003e. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchitects went far beyond modernism, \u003c\/strong\u003egoing back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConstructivists\u003c\/strong\u003e would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexpressionist \u003c\/strong\u003eway (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eSuprematist \u003c\/span\u003einfluence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“speaking architecture”\u003c\/strong\u003e widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eflying saucer \u003c\/span\u003ecrashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBig Brother\u003c\/span\u003e (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eextraordinary remnants of a collapsing system\u003c\/strong\u003e. In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003evast geography of the USSR \u003c\/strong\u003eand its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eideological dreams of the country and its time\u003c\/strong\u003e, from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"modal-body\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: New\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Taschen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46077113958568,"sku":null,"price":12.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0932\/6872\/files\/ScreenShot2023-12-18at12.24.38.png?v=1702902297","url":"https:\/\/beartreerecords.com\/products\/frederic-chaubin-cccp-cosmic-communist-constructions-photographed-40th-ed-hardback-book","provider":"Bear Tree Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}