The ‘Utopias and Realities: Socialist Modernism’ conference and forum is organized by the Transmodern collective and Collegium Hungaricum Berlin in 28-29 April 2016 in Berlin, Germany. We had a really interesting program with 17 lecturers from 9 countries to speak about Read More …
Trespassing Modernities exhibition by SALT will reveal the legacy of modern architecture in the former Soviet Union. Examples of exceptional practices by local architects working in the 1960s and 1970s followed by the crticial approach of the Paper Architecture movement Read More …
The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The Read More …
We tend to think that the history of postwar architecture and urban planning has been written. Yet upon closer observation the map of canonized perceptions of Modernism reveals a number of white areas and blind spots. Among the most fascinating Read More …
A photo tumblr on the contemporary state of Soviet buildings in the Armenian capital. The photos, which are sometimes slightly romantic, are accompanied by original construction details.
With an impressive photo selection on Modernist buildings from the territory of the former Soviet Union, this well-systematized webpage is a good starting point to understand the significance os Socialist Modernism. The site was developed for the pioneering exhibition of Read More …
Visaginas, formerly Sniečkus, (Lithuania) was built as a planned socialist town and a satellite settlement to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. Both the plant and the town were established in order to integrate Lithuania into the All-Union economic structures via Read More …