Amerikanist Dreams
Owen Hatherley, 21 October 2021
Building a New World: Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
by Jean-Louis Cohen.
Yale, 544 pp., £30, September 2020,978 0 300 24815 9 Show More
by Jean-Louis Cohen.
Yale, 544 pp., £30, September 2020,
Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital
by Katherine Zubovich.
Princeton, 280 pp., £34, January,978 0 691 17890 5 Show More
by Katherine Zubovich.
Princeton, 280 pp., £34, January,
“... of Coney Island and the Rockefeller Centre; and, after one of the two empires had disappeared, Susan Buck-Morss, who in Dreamworld and Catastrophe (2000) shifted from elegiac speculations about the death of utopia to the low comedy of the resemblance between Stalin’s unbuilt Palace of the Soviets – a skyscraper topped by a giant Lenin – and its ... ”