Frank Herfort, “Grand Park, Moscow” (2006 / 2009) (all images courtesy the artist and Kerber) If you think Soviet architecture was strange — with its retrofuture angles and monolithic forms — you ...

In the 1950s, premier of the Soviet state Joseph Stalin transformed the skyline of Moscow by building seven-tiered skyscrapers, which filled the horizon like Socialist-era wedding cakes. The spires ...

Since the end of World War II, Russia’s cities have grown in a Modern Soviet style. This prolonged use and application of the principles of architecture’s modern movement heavily affected the ...

With its heavy-duty concrete structure, the vaulted Chorsu Bazaar in the Uzbek capital Tashkent exudes the architectural starkness typical of Soviet Modernism. However, the blue and turquoise tiling ...

It is fascinating to delve into the practice of Iván Bravo, firstly because the path taken towards his architectural work immerses us in a vast creative universe through the architect's interest and ...

Thinking about the historical architectural and technical exchanges between the United States and Russia might not seem like an important topic at the moment, suggesting as it does espionage, nuclear ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Katherine Zubovich on her new book about skyscrapers in Moscow. Derek Davison and Daniel Bessner Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk ...