CONTENTS
Foreword by Vladimir Belogolovsky 7
The Right to Confession 12
Historical Triad of Soviet Architecture 14
Avant-garde 16
Architecture for Stalin 24
Soviet Modernism 38
Credo of the Soviet Modernist 63
Origins 63
Function 65
Environment 69
Technology 72
Economics 77
Process 79
Logic 79
Emotion 81
Synthesis 85
A Word about the Master 87
The Formula of Architecture 90
Conditions 92
The Client 93
Fellow Architect 96
The Contractor 98
Friends and Enemies 100
Actual Problems 102
The Unique and the Standard 102
About the Replicable and Irreplaceable 105
House, Block, City 106
Moscow- The Werewolf City 109
Moscow Center - Three Concepts 113
Perestroika from Start to Finish 118
How it Was 119
My Introduction to the Profession 123
Governmental Service 126
Build ings on the Embankment 131
Christening by Competition 134
Union of the Architects of the USSR 140
Palace ofPioneers 145
Zelenograd 161
MIET 169
Competitions and the Embassy 177
The Typical and the Individual 191
In Uzb ekistan 196
About Paper and Cardboard Architecture 203
The Red House that became White 209
Where, When, and with Whom 226
Architectur e is about Everything 235
A Quarter of a Century Later 237
P. S. The Fate of the Soviet Legacy 238
Index of People and Places 244