June 2012
16 posts
The Nuclear Necessity - With exponential urbanisation and peak fossil fuel...
– Current research question - subsequent to change regularly
Cities and Urban Ideologies Submission
From the Bauhaus to the Communal House -
Comparison and analysis of the Post-First World War modern period of Architecture in Germany and the U.S.S.R.
By Edward Patton
Introduction
The fallout of the First World War created a multiplicity of changes across the world, with massive cultural shifts, and giving birth to the modern movement of art and architecture in Europe. With...
Anatole Kopp: Town and Revolution: Soviet...
Reviewed by Edward Patton
Town and Revolution: Soviet Architecture and City Planning, 1917 - 1935 published in 1970, documents the post revolutionary period of architecture and urbanism in the then newly formed Soviet Union.
Anatole Kopp was born in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) but studied in France and America before returning to Europe and eventually the U.S.S.R. A member of the...