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Utopia & collapse : rethinking Metsamor : the Armenian atomic city

Roters, Katharina, 1969- editor, photographer, Petrosyan, Sarhat, editor, Gleiter, Jèorg H., 1960- writer of supplementary textual content, Mikaelyan, Martin, illustrator

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\"Utopia and Collapse documents the rise and fall of Metsamor. The book brings together an oral history of Metsamor with essays by Sarhat Petrosyan and a team of contributors and art and photographic research by Katharina Roters, including more than one hundred photographs. Among the topics discussed are Armenia's cultural and and architectural histories; the typology of Soviet atomograds, or atomic cities; and the phenomenon of modern ruins. Although today the power plant's workers live in a partly built failed utopia, Metsamor stands as examples of the highly idiosyncratic Armenian variety of Soviet Modernism of the 1960s and '70s, making this a fascinating story for anyone with an interest in Soviet-era buildings and architecture.\"--University of Chicago Press website

• Publisher: Park Books
• Subject: Architecture Armenia (Republic) Metsamor. / Architecture, Modern 20th century. / Architecture, Modern 21st century. / Metsamor (Armenia) History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9783038600947, 3038600946

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NA1492.62.M48 U86 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS