anno di pubblicazione 2026
pp. 200
ISBN cartaceo 9791255001379
ISBN pdf 9791255001386
The volume examines the multiple trajectories of Soviet and socialist architecture, highlighting their transnational scope as well as the tensions shaping the relationship between ideological frameworks, technical practices, and the processes and effects of knowledge circulation.
Through contributions by scholars and doctoral researchers, the book seeks to convey the complexity of this landscape, in which the Soviet model serves as a reference but does not exhaust the plurality of socialist experiences, revealing exchanges, adaptations, and contradictions that transcend the geographical and political boundaries of the USSR.
Il volume prende in esame le molteplici traiettorie dell’architettura sovietica e socialista, evidenziandone la portata transnazionale, nonché le tensioni che animano il rapporto tra la dimensione ideologica, pratiche tecniche, processi ed effetti della circolazione di saperi e conoscenze. Attraverso contributi di studiosi e ricerche dottorali, il libro cerca di restituire la complessità di questo panorama, dove il modello sovietico agisce come riferimento ma non esaurisce la pluralità delle esperienze socialiste, rivelando scambi, adattamenti e contraddizioni che superano i confini geografici e politici dell’URSS.
Valeria Casali is an editor, researcher, and educator trained between Milan, Aachen, and Montreal. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture. History and Project from Politecnico di Torino.
Valeria Casali è redattrice e ricercatrice formatasi tra Milano, Aachen e Montréal. Ha un Ph.D. in Architecture. History and Project del Politecnico di Torino.
Prologue
Part One
Decoding the Historiography of Socialist Architecture
Alessandro De Magistris
Content, Forms, and Means of Dissemination of the Stalinist Plan for Moscow
Élisabeth Essaïan
Stalin’s Architect. Boris Iofan’s Ultimate Style: A Tribute to Kazimir Malevich
Danilo Udovički-Selb
Panels and Films. Mass Industrial Construction in Soviet Cinematography, 1959-1979
Natalya Solopova
Prospective (Prospectivă): Transferring Knowledge About the Future (Romania, 1966-1976)
Dana Vais
Notes for a Transnational History of Soviet Architecture
Jean-Louis Cohen
Part Two
The Decade of the Spetsialist in China (1949-1959)
Federico Madaro
The Influence of the Soviet Model on Chinese Architectural Practice Since the 1950s
Giulia Montanaro
“Soviet-style Architecture” in 1950s China and the Slogan
“Socialist in Content, National in Form”
Dingran Chen
The Sino-Soviet Friendship and Workers’ Housing in Wuhan, 1950-1960
Beini Guo
The Ostankino TV Tower in Moscow. Actors, Models, and Technology
Luca Saverio Valzano
Soviet Architecture Culture in the 1967 Revolution Anniversary
Specials, from Look to The NewYorkTimes
Valeria Casali
Escapism in Ceauşescu’s Romania. The Case of Gheorghe Săsărman’s Science Fiction
Valentina Labriola
Part Three
References
Abstracts
Illustrations