Title Architecture of life : Soviet modernism and the human sciences / Alla Vronskaya

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 281 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Contents Life: An Ideology for Modernity -- Space: Formalist Architectural Pedagogy at the VKhUTEMAS -- Orientation: El Lissitzky's Evolutionist Urbanism -- Fitness: Nikolay Ladovsky's Architectural Psychotechnics -- Process: Organicist Aesthetics of Soviet Standardization -- Energy: Soviet Wall-Painting and the Economy of Perception -- Personality: Gorky Park as a Factory of Dealienation -- Conclusion. History: From the Monistic to the Terrestrial Summary "Examining theories advanced by El Lissitzky, Moisei Ginzburg, and Nikolay Ladovsky, this illuminating study demonstrates how Soviet architects of the interwar period sought to mitigate Fordist production methods with other, ostensibly more human-oriented approaches that drew on the biological and psychological sciences"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Title from digital title page Subject Architecture and science -- Soviet Union Modern movement (Architecture) -- Soviet Union Architecture -- Human factors -- Soviet Union ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Architecture and science Architecture -- Human factors Modern movement (Architecture) Soviet Union Form Electronic book ISBN 9781452967134 145296713X 9781452967141 1452967148

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