Vertiginous Moscow: Stalin's City Today - Hardcover

Gabriele Basilico

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 050054378X ISBN 13: 9780500543788

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Over the last fifteen years, Moscow has undergone vast and radical transformations, which have turned it into an extraordinary urban laboratory. This photographic project by Gabriele Basilico was inspired by a desire to document this metamorphosis, and takes as its focal point the city’s seven Stalinist towers, known in Russian as the vysotnye zdania, or ‘high buildings’. Basilico’s images use the towers as a privileged viewpoint for exploration and contemplation of the changing fabric of Moscow. After half a century of history, his work allows these striking buildings to be re-evaluated in the context of the new urban landscape of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Moscow. Urban Transformations by Umberto Zanetti · Axis Mundi. A Vertical Moscow in Stalin’s Shadow by Alessandro De Magistris · Gabriele Basilico. Unexpected Moscow by Christian Caujolle · One Colour of Reality by Gabriel Bauret · Urban Landscapes: Kotel’niceskaja; Krasnye Vorota; Leningradskaja; Barrikadnaja; MID; Ukraina; MGU

About this title

Review:

`Offers a rare birds-eye view of a city scourged by heavy traffic and senseless development'
-- Wallpaper*

About the Author:

Originally trained as an architect, Italian-born Gabriele Basilico is now one of Europe's leading fine art photographers.Thames & Hudson has published two of his books, Cityscapes and Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 050054378X
• ISBN 13: 9780500543788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160