TY - GEN AU - Novikov, Felix TI - Behind the iron curtain : confession of a Soviet architect SN - 9783869223599 U1 - 720.947 PY - 2016/// CY - Berlin PB - DOM Pub. KW - N1 - 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 ER -