French photographer Frédéric Chaubin's book CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed is a collection of photographs highlighting ninety buildings constructed twenty years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over several years he visited fourteen former republics photographing these futuristic and mammoth structures that look as if they're out of a sci-fi movie. What's interesting about this construction period is that there wasn't one style of architecture, demonstrating a surprising freedom in design after Stalin's strict controls in 1920s Constructivism which moved into Khrushchev's Modernism of the 1950-60s. "These extraordinary structures represented the dreams and hopes of a few innovators looking toward the future, a space-age era with endless possibilities while their country was collapsing around them." -- Liesl Bradner Frédéric Chaubin has been, for the last fifteen years, editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. Since 2000 he has regularly featured works combining text and photography. The CCCP collection research was carried out from 2003 to 2010, through an intuitive and creative travel process. This project has been shown throughout the world, from Japan to the United States. --TASCHEN CommentsLeave a Reply | krista + blog = klog
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