Synopsis
- First book on 'Atomograd' Metsamor in Armenia
- A unique, fascinating study on Soviet idealistic modernism and failed utopias
- Featuring the most recent artistic project by award-winning Hungarian artist Katharina Roters
Utopia & Collapse documents the rise and fall of Metsamor. The book brings together an oral history of Metsamor with essays by Sarhat Petrosyan and a team of contributors and photographic research and visual mapping by Katharina Roters, including more than one hundred images. Among the topics discussed are Armenia's cultural and and architectural histories; the typology of Soviet atomograds, or atomic cities; and the phenomenon of modern ruins. Although today the power plant's workers live in a partly built failed utopia, Metsamor stands as an example of the highly idiosyncratic Armenian variety of Soviet Modernism of the 1960s and '70s, making this a fascinating story for anyone with an interest in Soviet-era buildings and architecture.
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About the Author
Katharina Roters lives in Budapest where she works as an artist. Her previous book Hungarian Cubes: Subversive Ornaments in Socialism (ISBN 9783906027432, Park Books, 2014) won the DAM Architectural Book Award 2014. Sarhat Petrosyan is an architect and urbanist and founding director of Yerevan-based urbanlab, an independent research institute.
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