A new book explores the legacy of an often-overlooked architectural style born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. Tashkent’s 1974 Hotel Uzbekistan is among the ...

Dmytro Soloviov stops by the “Flying Saucer,” a concrete structure in central Kyiv nicknamed for its futuristic, spaceship-like form. Designed by architect Florian Yuriev and completed in 1971 as the ...

Frank Herfort, “Grand Park, Moscow” (2006 / 2009) (all images courtesy the artist and Kerber) If you think Soviet architecture was strange — with its retrofuture angles and monolithic forms — you ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - British photographer Richard Pare is on a mission to capture Soviet avant-garde buildings before they turn to ruins in the hope of raising awareness about this little-known period ...

Pavilion 13 opened in 1967 to celebrate the Soviet Union’s coal mining industry. Now, the building has been transformed into a contemporary art center by ФОРМА. (Vitalii Halanzha/Courtesy RIBBON ...

Most visitors to Uzbekistan stick to the Silk Road tourist trail, exploring the mosques and madrasas of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva, and perhaps the intriguing mix of Islamic and Soviet modernist ...

Richard Pare is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and ...

Guide map to Modernist architecture across San Francisco and the Bay Area. This two-sided folded map with original photography by Jason Woods is edited by Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor at California ...

When cities grow, fuelled by an expanding population, housing becomes an essential component of the urban character of a metropolis. Across the world, housing experiments have been propagated by ...

Modern architecture is the architectural style that dominated the Western world between the 1930s and the 1960s and was characterized by an analytical and functional approach to building design.