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Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning, 1917-1935

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Anatole Kopp argues that the earliest socialist architecture stemmed not from European painting and sculpture but from revolutionary ideals. Neither prophets nor rebels against an established order, men like Melnikov, Leonidov, Ginzburg and the Vesnin brothers worked with their new state in seeking to change man by changing his environment. Despite internal strife, poor building materials, and technical difficulties, the twenties were years of experiments in a new way of life, both architecturally and socially. Students of history, politics, architecture, and urbanism will find Town and Revolution to be a unique source book as well as a pioneering history. The author supports his findings with 200 rare plans, views, and photographs, and with texts of articles, manifestos, and documents gathered in the Soviet Union and published here in English for the first time.

274 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

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November 6, 2010
Dès les premières pages, l'ouvrage (Ville et Révolution, architecture et urbanisme soviétique des années vingt) semble très intéressant. J'attendrai de le finir avant de donner un avis plus détaillé.
Le livre s'annonce avec ces quelques vers de Vladimir Maïakovski:

"Ici dans quatre ans
il y aura une ville-jardin !
Les ours en débandade
fuiront les explosions
et un "géant" étincelant
arrachera les entrailles de la terre.
Ici les chantiers deviendront des murs,
la vapeur sifflera dans les sirènes.
Nous enflammeront la Sibérie
aux cent-soleils des fours Martin.
Ici on nous donnera une belle maison
et du pain sans tickets
tandis que la taïga se retira
par-delà le Baïkal"

V.V. Maïakovski
Les chantiers et les hommes de Kouznetsk 1927
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June 2, 2014
في ظلّ الثورات العربية والحروب الأهليّة والمدن المدمّرة وأزمات السكن, كان لا بدّ من اعادة قراءة هذا الكتاب الرائع الذي يختصر التجربة السوفياتية بعدالثورة البولشفية بما يختصّ بمشاكل السكن والتنظيم المُدُني. انصح به للمهتمّين.
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