Building a new New World : Amerikanizm in Russian architecture / Jean-Louis Cohen ; translated by Luba Markovskaia.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Construire un nouveau Nouveau Monde. Anglais
Main Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis (Author)
Corporate Author: Centre canadien d'architecture (Issuing body, Host institution)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Montréal : Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2020.
Subjects:
Architecture > Soviet Union > American influences > Exhibitions.
Architecture > Soviet Union > History > Exhibitions.
Architecture.
Architecture > American influences.
Soviet Union.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Physical Description:544 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Czarist Russia and its Americas
  • Taylorism and Fordism for the Soviet industrial development
  • Avant-garde Amerikanizm
  • Architectural Amerikanizm in the early phase of Stalinism
  • War and peace : from Alliance to competition
  • Krushchev and his successors : reaching, surpassing, and forgetting America
  • Index and credits