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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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    Publisher: Yale University Press
    Publication Date: 24/11/2020
    ISBN13: 9780300248159, 978-0300248159
    ISBN10: 0300248156

    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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