CCCP - Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed (Chaubin Frederic)(Pevná vazba)

The beauty of Soviet brutalism: A photographic record of 90 weird and wonderful buildings from the last decades of the USSR Photographer Fr d ric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no "school" or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announced the end of the Soviet Union.

Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, the holes in the widening net, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating.
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