Cirk - Build Your Own Socialist Modernist Circus
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34,00€
About
Build your own Socialist Modern Circus with this beautiful book that documents 17 Soviet-era circus buildings as they exist today. Some remain active performance venues; others are undergoing restoration following a period of neglect. Together, they reveal a lesser-known chapter of postwar modernist architecture shaped by ideology and mass entertainment.
Through striking photographs and insightful narratives, the first part of Cirk explores the history and architecture of these landmark buildings. The second half of the book contains five illustrated paper models that readers can press out and assemble to re-create selected circus structures. All you need is glue.
Includes 5 press-out circus models to assemble:
Bishkek > Kyrgyz State Circus
Chișinău > Chișinău State Circus
Dnipro > Dnipro State Circus
Moscow > Great Moscow State Circus
Tashkent > Tashkent State Circus
Permanent circuses built across the former USSR between the 1960s and the 1980s formed a distinct architectural typology. Rising in capital cities and regional centres alike, these arenas combined socialist modernism, experimental engineering and choregraphed spectacle. With their futuristic concrete forms they transformed the travelling circus into a civic institution.
30 x 24cm
Hardcover
Isbn: 9788396326898
