{"id":14753,"date":"2020-07-06T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/traces-of-a-bygone-empire-soviet-architecture\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T03:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T07:46:19","slug":"traces-of-a-bygone-empire-soviet-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/details\/traces-of-a-bygone-empire-soviet-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"These Haunting Photographs Explore the Ruins of Communist Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architects: Showcase your next project through <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/architizer.com\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architizer<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and sign up for our <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.leadpages.co\/serve-leadbox\/HSkYzzJnz7DjqLs3Rvr9tH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inspirational newsletter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>When the walls that divided Communist Eastern Europe from the rest of the world came crashing down, something was lost forever \u2014 not just a political formation, but a worldview, a way of seeing.<\/p>\n<p>In the USSR, art and architecture were made to express the empire\u2019s perception of itself as the harbinger of global communist revolution. The nation\u2019s sense of destiny was reflected in the grandiose style of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stalinist_architecture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stalinist Architecture<\/a> and in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soviet_art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">various art movements<\/a> that sought to celebrate the nobility of the working class. Artists who tried to represent different values, like the poet <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=97hn9almZX0C&amp;pg=PA7&amp;lpg=PA7&amp;dq=brodsky+censorship&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=CuAO6oV2KC&amp;sig=2LxILai8hih4WJpNrY5Bc1gyIVY&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwj0j6PBpPHNAhUKWT4KHTnyCvMQ6AEIJzAD#v=onepage&amp;q=brodsky%20censorship&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joseph Brodsky<\/a>, could find themselves imprisoned. Similar norms prevailed in other communist countries within the Soviet sphere of influence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022015eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_0.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022743eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_5.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Art in the Soviet Union was meant to glorify the state; photos by Eric Lusito. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>The perspective that art and design should glorify the state is rightly recognized today as an affront to individualism. However, the architecture, art and design of this era carried an undeniable utopian energy, reflecting an empire that viewed itself as historically unique.<\/p>\n<p>This came through in a 2016 photography exhibition in London called \u201cDead Space and Ruins.\u201d This show combined the work of three photographers and one filmmaker who document grand Soviet buildings that have fallen into ruin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img 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military sites.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Italian photographer Eric Lusito, whose work focused on the rubble of abandoned Army bases, describes his work as documenting the remains of an empire that once saw itself as \u201call powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022037eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441022037eric-lusito-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 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368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cFrom East Germany to Mongolia, from Poland to Kazakhstan, these now decaying military buildings and structures \u2014 sites hidden for so long which formed the very heart of the Soviet system, with their symbols of the all-powerful Soviet Empire once seemingly inviolable \u2014 illuminate and inform our understanding of the power and influence the military held over the people of the Soviet bloc countries, and in turn they reflect the decay of the empire itself,\u201d Lusito said of his photographs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img 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use of negative space in his photographs of \u201crestricted areas.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko focused on \u201crestricted areas\u201d that cannot be found on a map. Here he found brutalist ruins, concrete buildings and sculptures that once served as symbols of technological progress. 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This massive housing project was meant to rehouse victims of an earthquake in 1988 but was never completed. Agasian calls his series \u201cGhost City.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1468441023538Vahram-Agasian-dead-space-ruins-calvert-22-foundation-power-architecture-art-soviet-union-london_dezeen_1568_1.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><i>Agasian urges viewers to see his photographs as a \u201csilent reminder of economic meltdown, natural disaster and industrial catastrophe.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition also included a film by the Russian filmmaker Anton Ginzburg about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructivism_(art)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constructivist architecture<\/a>. This was a modernist movement that flourished in the early revolutionary period of the 20s and 30s. It was supplanted in later decades by more formally conservative styles like Stalinist architecture and Socialist Realist art.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDead Space and Ruins\u201d ran at the <a href=\"http:\/\/calvert22.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calvert 22 Foundation<\/a> until August 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><i>EDIT: An earlier version of this piece implied that all of the buildings featured were located in former Soviet nations. However, some buildings, including the <\/i><i>Buzludzha Monument in Bulgaria, which is featured in the cover image, were located in communist countries in the Eastern bloc. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>All images via <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2016\/07\/08\/dead-space-ruins-exhibition-calvert-22-foundation-london-soviet-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>dezeen<\/i><\/a>. <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architects: Showcase your next project through <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/architizer.com\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Architizer<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and sign up for our <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.leadpages.co\/serve-leadbox\/HSkYzzJnz7DjqLs3Rvr9tH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inspirational newsletter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the walls that divided Communist Eastern Europe from the rest of the world came crashing down, something was lost forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"architizer_featured_type":"","architizer_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"architizer_project":[],"architizer_brand":[],"architizer_firm":[],"architizer_product":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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