Towards a Typology of Soviet Mass Housing: Prefabrication in the USSR 1955-1991

Soviet mass housing is a contradictory but unique phenomenon. It is usually blamed for creating the most monotonous built environment in the history of mankind, thus constituting a symbol of individual suppression and dejection. The construction programme launched in the post-Stalinist era was the largest undertaken in modern architectural history worldwide.

456 p.: fot., colour, 23x20.5 cm., paperback