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SUMMARY:Soviet Asia : how Soviet Modernism met Central Asia
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DESCRIPTION:Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego\, photographers\, Milan\nFor 
 their project Soviet Asia\, the Italian photographers Roberto Conte and St
 efano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzsta
 n\, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan\, documenting buildings constructed from the
  1950s until the fall of the USSR.\nThe resulting images showcase the maje
 stic and largely unknown Soviet modernist buildings of the region. Museums
 \, housing complexes\, universities\, circuses\, ritual palaces\, all were
  constructed using a composite aesthetic\, influenced by socialist moderni
 ty as well as Persian and Islamic architecture\, with pattern and mosaic m
 otifs connected to the local traditions of Central Asia. Stalin’s death 
 in 1953 and the development of technology gave a huge boost to the design 
 and construction of new housing solutions: grey concrete slabs were juxtap
 osed with colourful tiling and rectilinear shapes broken by ornate curved 
 forms: the brutalist design normally associated with Soviet-era architectu
 re was declined with Eastern and exotic  features.\nSoviet Asia represent
 s an attempt to tell\, through images\, this peculiar cultural hybridizati
 on that occurred in Central Asia in the post-war period\, an era in which 
 the rather creative architectural phenomenon known as Soviet modernism\, r
 eached those territories and has proliferated up to the implosion of the U
 SSR\, creating architectures that are still able to tell us something abou
 t a world that no longer exists.\n\n 
LOCATION:Project room Archizoom
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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