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,
“... cupola of the Singer Building.These extraordinary towers are the subject of Katherine Zubovich’s Moscow Monumental, which along with Michał Murawski’s The Palace Complex – a very funny but also serious account of the Palace of Culture and Science, their Soviet-designed cousin in Warsaw – historicises buildings that have ... ”
