#books #architecture | DOM Basics 85 | Boris Iofan : architect behind the Palace of the Soviets

Boris Iofan : architect behind the Palace of the Soviets / Maria Kostyuk ; with contributions by Alessandro de Magistris, Federica Patti and Elena Zheludkova.
Berlin : DOM, 2019.
319 p. : il.
Serie: Basics (DOM) ; 85.
ISBN 9783869223124
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – URSS / Boris Mikhaĭlovich Iofan
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72IOFAN BOR
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1121582478

Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the ­Socialist ­Classicism that flourished under Stalin. Rather, Iofan’s archi­tectural language boldly evolved throughout his lifetime: from his eclectic beginnings in Rome, to the grandeur of the wedding-cake style in the 1930s, and finally, to his incorporation of concrete panels under the Khrushchev government. This book presents a collection of essays, photographs, floor plans, sketches, and drawings that chart the development of the archi­tect’s variegated career which spanned nearly six decades.