BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN

The prominent architect Felix Novikov was born in 1927, when the famous Constructivist Konstantin Melnikov was at the peak of his ca reer. Novikov tells the dramatic story of Soviet architecture, portraying the conditions he worked in and how he collaborated with t he government and other participants during the creative process. He further explains how Soviet design and planning institutes were organized with reference to the Union of the Architects of the USSR and describes the creative ideals of his generation of architec ts, who ...[Read more]