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Post-Soviet architecture through the eyes of Frank Herforta
The famous German photographer Frank Herfort made a series of photographs dedicated to the post-Soviet architecture. He shot skyscrapers from Moscow to Blagoveshchensk, which is located next to the old houses, rusted cars and other flavor of modern post-Soviet territory. Do you like modern, post-Soviet architecture? Do not you think that it often spoils of the city, changing their faces in some kitsch, soulless way? I sometimes see the building, bright, with columns, hung with excesses, as the face of a woman who abuses cosmetics. And remember the legend about Luzhkov, who allegedly took the central projects of all buildings.
Very well written Gregory Revzin- architecture critic in his book "The Great Twenty»:
"The post-Soviet architecture lasts twenty years. It's a lot. For twenty years, we began and ended Nouveau, Neoclassicism, Constructivism, Stalinist architecture - there is something to compare. The history of this architecture - the story of the twenty main characters »
In the year in Russia there is about two thousand people with a diploma architect generation - twenty years, about forty thousand people, and in the end - twenty pieces. The odds - one to two thousand, only worse poets.
What was it? With over twenty years did twenty characters? In 2008, when I was doing an exhibition of "chess game" at the Venice Biennale, Andrei Bokov Alexander Skokan and Eugene Asse with varying degrees of sharpness criticized me for opposing the idea of Russian and Western schools. "Architect - they said - International profession, it does not matter what his nationality, and that he has brought to today's global architecture." Well, what we have there?
Grigory Revzin - architecture critic
Frank studied in Hamburg from 2006 to 2011 was in Russia and currently works in Berlin and Moscow.
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Very well written Gregory Revzin- architecture critic in his book "The Great Twenty»:
"The post-Soviet architecture lasts twenty years. It's a lot. For twenty years, we began and ended Nouveau, Neoclassicism, Constructivism, Stalinist architecture - there is something to compare. The history of this architecture - the story of the twenty main characters »
In the year in Russia there is about two thousand people with a diploma architect generation - twenty years, about forty thousand people, and in the end - twenty pieces. The odds - one to two thousand, only worse poets.
What was it? With over twenty years did twenty characters? In 2008, when I was doing an exhibition of "chess game" at the Venice Biennale, Andrei Bokov Alexander Skokan and Eugene Asse with varying degrees of sharpness criticized me for opposing the idea of Russian and Western schools. "Architect - they said - International profession, it does not matter what his nationality, and that he has brought to today's global architecture." Well, what we have there?
Grigory Revzin - architecture critic
Frank studied in Hamburg from 2006 to 2011 was in Russia and currently works in Berlin and Moscow.
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