Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture 1922-1932

by Jean L. Cohen and Richard Pare

The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the Soviet regime,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580931855
• ISBN13: 9781580931854
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 5.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 10.8"