Archinect - News2013-05-19T20:10:39-04:00http://archinect.com/news/article/61467335/the-buildings-of-socialism-soviet-modernism-1955-1991-unknown-histories-at-the-architekturzentrum-wien
The Buildings of Socialism | 'Soviet Modernism 1955-1991: Unknown Histories' at the Architekturzentrum Wien Archinect2012-11-15T19:31:00-05:00>2012-11-18T02:55:37-05:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/30/30ff18038b53ec7918fedf4704ea5c18.jpg" width="514" height="343" border="0" title="" alt="" /><em><p>Led by Architekturzentrum Wien director Dietmar Steiner, the curators traveled around the former Soviet Union over a three-year period in search of their often elusive and quickly decaying subjects. Focusing on the former republics—from Estonia to Belarus, Armenia to Uzbekistan—they interviewed the still-living actors of the time and foraged in bookshops for archive material. They eventually uncovered major Soviet typologies...</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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The Architecture of Photography - Conversation with Simona Rota croixe2012-07-30T15:04:00-04:00>2012-07-31T10:19:39-04:00<img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/ui/uiuc6tyi52zhiw89.jpg" width="514" height="342" border="0" title="" alt="" /><p>
<strong>From the eroded optimism of the heroic building-monuments in east-Europe, to the monochromatic banality of housing developments in the Canary Islands, the photographs of Simona Rota appear to be talking to us about the aspirations and shortcomings of architecture in both its megalomaniac and its quotidian streams.<br>
Often lacking human presence, the photographs tell a tale of evaporated intentions, and failed dreams, making through the images a visual statement about the power of humanity to create, alter, and transform our environment.</strong></p>
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<strong>Images of architecture about topics that transcend architecture, projects like Ostalgia, Instant Village, and Placelessness take us to a personal journey through some of the faces of modernity in Europe, while revealing simultaneously the seducing beauty of its ugliness, and the vulnerability of its invincible architectures.<br>
We are drawn towards the fantastic journey of an upcoming visual story teller that equally dazzles us with an image of the ...</strong></p>