Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed - image 1 Frédéric Chaubin.

Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed - image 6, Frédéric Chaubin.

24 reviews ... Start your review of CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. Needless to say, I'm into this kind of stuff in a big way. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. May 31, 2011 Simon rated it really liked it. During the last five years, he has been dedicating himself to the Stone Age project. Fabulous architecture fabulously photographed, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2017, I've bought quite few truly brilliant architecture books from Amazon but this one is a revalation. Adoro. Something went wrong.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 February 2019, If you are into architecture, photography and Soviet nostalgia you will love this enormous book. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed - image 1, Frédéric Chaubin. And there is rarely any exterior texture.

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The beauty and imagination of the buildings portrayed in this large format book are only matched by the high quality of the photos and the superb production standards employed by Taschen.

It must be a fairly decent size for this huge bokm to justify the print run, although a trilingual text must help to reduce production costs. A fascinating book which needs a little more text. A fantastic collection of photographs by Frédéric Chaubin that features 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture.

The central element of this book (cosmic communist constructions) is unexpected, but also a more than achieved goal.

His CCCP collection research was carried out from 2003 to 2010 and published in 2011. It also outlines the geography of the USSR, showing how local influences made their exotic twists before the country was brought to its end.Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed was elected best book on architecture of the year 2010 by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France (Festival International du Livre d’Art & du Film Perpignan).

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 September 2016. She tried to say something like "Heavy book...carry with your hands" in broken English but I took this enormous large print book and shoved it in right in my backpack. The economic crisis in capitalism seems to have spurned a vast range of books about communism, people are fascinated by this period of our very recent history, unfortunately most authors are biased either for or against communism but since this book if full of large pictures and a short intro text it is left to the viewer to decide if the architecture is an ugly remnant of totalitarianism or a vision of socialist human progress that was betrayed. It must be a fairly decent size for this huge bokm to justify the print run, although a trilingual text must help to reduce production costs. Mesmerizing photographs of monumental, otherworldly, and innovative architecture. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 April 2013. this book is essential for anyone interested in progressive buildings and the post-war USSR, the photographs are of good quality and virtually all are devoid of people, adding to the sense that you are looking at a fallen empire of an ideology that has passed into history.

The result is hulking, slabby and inhuman buildings. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Spotted this slab of hardback in my local Waterstones, quite by accident, whilst looking for bargains.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 May 2018. I happen to really like brutalist architecture and this book not only has that, it has some out there, futuristic, sci-fi looking structures. Makes me want to book a flight on the next plane to Tashkent. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. ISBN 978-3-8365-2519-0Multilingual Edition: English, French, German, Hardcover, 26 x 34 cm, 2.66 kg, 312 pages. Try again.

CCCP: BU (Bibliotheca Universalis), Eastern Blocks: Concrete Landscapes of the Former Eastern Bloc, This Brutal World (ARCHITECTURE GENERALE), "...an eye-opening experience for those who assumed that Soviet architecture died with the rise of Stalin." Huge collections of photographs by Chaubin of numerous buildings across the former Soviet Union with an emphasis on concrete. Grittingcronz. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. No student of architecture (or the USSR), I had to approach this book as a spectacle – and what a spectacle! Twenty pounds, I told myself.