Russian Architecture - Stalinist Architecture, Russian Cultural Heritage Register, Constructivist Architecture, Russian Neoclassical Revival (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Stalinist architecture, Russian cultural heritage register, Constructivist architecture, Russian neoclassical revival, Battle of the palaces, Postconstructivism, Onion dome, Russian Revival architecture, Russian church architecture, Okhta Center, Panelak, OSA Group, Khrushchyovka, Architecture of Kievan Rus', Narkomtiazhprom, Tented roof, ASNOVA, Arch Moscow, Kokoshnik, Bochka roof. Excerpt: Stalinist architecture (Russian: - Stalin's Empire style or Russian: - Stalin's Neo-renaissance), also referred to as Stalinist Gothic, or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned "excesses" of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture. Stalinist architecture has associations with the socialist realism school of art & architecture. One of the 22 rejected projects for Kiev's reconstructionAs part of the Soviet policy of rationalization of the country, all cities were built to a general development plan. Each was divided into districts, with allotments based on the city's geography. Projects would be designed for whole districts, visibly transforming a city's architectural image. The interaction of the state with the architects would prove to be one of the features of this time. The same building could be declared a formalist blasphemy and then receive the greatest praise the next year, Authentic styles like Zholtovsky's Renaissance Revival, Ivan Fomin's St. Petersburg Neoclassical Revival and Art Deco adaptation by Alexey Dushkin and Vladimir Shchuko coexisted with imitations and eclectics that became characteristic of that era. The Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki (Russian: ), "(Stalin's) high-rises" are a group of skyscrapers in Moscow designed...