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An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

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“The book isn’t argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating, a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . . . The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays between chapters, are stories in themselves.”—Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books

“A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces the image of Russia and that of modernity itself.”—Arquitectura Viva

Named One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of Culture

Winner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians

Building a new New World

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Louis Cohen

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 24 November 2020
      ISBN-13 9780300248159
      978-0300248159
      ISBN-10 0300248156
      Also in:
      Art & Photography City and town planning: architectural aspects History History of other geographical groupings History of the Americas

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.

      Trade Review
      “The book isn’t argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating, a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . . . The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays between chapters, are stories in themselves.”—Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books

      “A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces the image of Russia and that of modernity itself.”—Arquitectura Viva

      Named One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of Culture

      Winner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians

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