CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed - Frédéric Chaubin

Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture, 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. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are extraordinary remnants of a collapsing system.

Binding: Hardback
Pages: 312