Frédéric Chaubin has been, for the last fifteen years, editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. Since 2000 he has regularly featured works combining text and photography. The CCCP collection research was carried out from 2003 to 2010, through an intuitive and creative travel process. This project has been shown throughout the world, from Japan to the United States.
An unrivaled photographic journey through time and geography, Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed gathers 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics, each built between 1970 and 1990. In their local exoticism, outlandish ideologies, and puzzle of styles, these vast, weird, and wonderful buildings are extraordinary remnants of a fallen system and state.
Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, 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. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the “speaking architecture” widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad).
In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are extraordinary remnants of a collapsing system.In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the vast geography of the USSR and its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the ideological dreams of the country and its time, from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity.
發表於2024-11-22
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自從現代主義一齣現,它就宣布瞭古代、近代所有經過人類社會總結、驗證的,過往的一切理論、經典將要瓦解、正在瓦解、已經瓦解。崩塌開始瞭。 當經典在各種藝術運動的催發之下一再被瓦解,當各藝術運動為瞭探索新的當下與未來,而宣布之前的藝術運動死亡之時,瓦解的目的本身...
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評分自從現代主義一齣現,它就宣布瞭古代、近代所有經過人類社會總結、驗證的,過往的一切理論、經典將要瓦解、正在瓦解、已經瓦解。崩塌開始瞭。 當經典在各種藝術運動的催發之下一再被瓦解,當各藝術運動為瞭探索新的當下與未來,而宣布之前的藝術運動死亡之時,瓦解的目的本身...
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圖書標籤: 建築 俄羅斯 設計 東歐 C.C.C.P. 蘇聯 建築設計 photobook
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評分BDO小組絕對都喜歡,看的爽死,標題特彆對內容,怪誕的蘇聯建築
評分纔發現居然也是Taschen傢齣品的 建築風格很蘇聯瞭。 “粗曠的苦行式美學”說的沒錯瞭。
Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載