Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human Sciences

During the 1920s and 1930s, proponents of Soviet architecture looked to principles within the human sciences in their efforts to formulate a methodological and theoretical basis for their modernist project. Alla Vronskaya delves into the foundations of this transdisciplinary and transnational endeavor, analyzing many facets of this radical approach and situating it within the context of other modernist movements developing concurrently across the globe. A comprehensive overview of the ideals that permeated its expanded project, “Architecture of Life” explicates the underlying impulses that motivated Soviet modernism, highlighting the deep interconnections among the ways it viewed all aspects of life, both natural and manufactured.