Jean-Louis Cohen is Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, a trained architect, and author of Architecture in Uniform (Yale, 2011).
“The book isn’t argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating,
a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . .
. The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays
between chapters, are stories in themselves.”—Owen Hatherley,
London Review of Books
“A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces
the image of Russia and that of modernity itself.”—Arquitectura
Viva
Named One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the
Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of Culture
Winner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the
Society of Architectural Historians
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