Richard Pare spent two decades photographing “rarely published and virtually inaccessible” buildings by the visionary architects who worked before Stalin rose to power. Between 1922 and 1932, Soviet ...

Avant-garde architectural thought enjoyed a heyday in 1920s and ’30s Russia. The Constructivist buildings of the era embodied a functionalist philosophy emboldened by Soviet Socialist propaganda that ...

The twentieth century in Russia has been a cataclysm of rare proportions, as war, revolution, famine, and massive political terror tested the limits of human ...

In Russia, the term "kremlin" refers to a major fortified central complex found in historic Russian cities, usually encompassing palaces, churches and government offices. here are several theories ...

Boris Iofan’s winning proposal for Palace of the Soviets. Image Courtesy of Arkadi Mordvinov, Vyacheslav K. Oltarzhevsky/Tchoban Foundation From the famous Kitchen Debate between Nikita Khrushchev and ...

Situated a few blocks away from the holy shrine of Imam Reza (AS) in Mashhad, the monument was built in the Qajar era (1789 to 1925). In recognition of its unique architectural heritage and ...

Religious architecture in Russia, arguably, remains backward-looking. With the Soviet Union’s anti-religious stance in the 20th century, religious architecture found little opportunity to grow.

The extraordinary William Brumfield has done it again with another great book about Russian architecture. Brumfield is a legend and, despite living in New Orleans where he is a professor at Tulane, a ...

This Monday, Dutch architecture and urban design firm MVRDV was seemingly first out the gate when it released a statement reacting to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked military invasion of ...