2008
Das Große Moskau, das es niemals gab (The Great Moscow, that Never Was)

Buildings of the Soviet avant-garde in contemporary Moscow, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, Wolfgang Obermair [Ed.]SCHLEBRUEGGE.EDITOR, ISBN: 978-3-85160-137-4

The book documents the architecture of the Soviet avant-garde in Moscow and the situation concerning it today. In addition to four essays by controversial Russian authors of the younger generation and a story by N. Aseyev from 1925, the book contains an extensive part of the picture. Central are the types of buildings from the 1920s: workers’ clubs, community kitchens, communal houses, bread factories, garages, public schools. Many of these so-called “construction of the second plan” were rediscovered only recently. The current issue between the preservation and demolition confronts the publication with a complex psycho-gram of a Moscow that never was. The editors provide an insight into the current discourse as a platform for the necessary and, in Moscow, still pending discussion over the architectural heritage and urban areas

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