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An investigative record of the architectural movement emblematic of the Soviet Orient After World War II, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was designated as the capital of the Soviet Orient, a vitrine of socialism in the East. Conceived by both local and Moscow architects, the distinctive quality of Tashkent modernism (1964–91) emerges from the tension between the Soviet Union's ambition for the city and the locals' endeavor to retain their city's character. This volume is an outgrowth of the Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI project, a research and preservation effort organized around a conference and exhibition held in 2023. The conference's title, “Where in the World Is Tashkent,” was drawn from the 2000 American Institute of Architects conference “Where in the World Is Chicago,” and its organizers shared a similar aim in re-situating the city of Tashkent as a paradigm for modernist architecture. The book consists of two interwoven layers. The first section contains a series of written and visual essays, while the second includes 15 building monographs, detailing their histories, protection inventories and intervention strategies. Case studies include the Cosmonauts metro station and the Tashkent outpost of the Vladimir Lenin museum. Altogether, the volume explores key themes related to the architectural, social and cultural history of Tashkent and its current condition. More than just another “peripheral case” of multiple modernities or a white spot on the world map of architectural modernism of the 20th century, this architecture-being relevant to the global cultural scene-reflects the colonial, postcolonial and, at the same time, decolonial aspects of the Soviet social and cultural experiment. AUTHORS: Francesco Bandarin was the director of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Saida Mirziyoyeva is a politician and the daughter of the president of Uzbekistan. Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect and professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. SELLING POINTS: . Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan, designated as the capital of the Soviet Orient after World War II. Designed as a “Model Soviet City,” it is a place where modernist nationalistic Soviet architecture meets Indigenous Islamic aesthetics. . This massive (920+ pages) illustrated paperback with flaps looks at Tashkent through written and visual essays, and then takes a deep dive into 15 building case studies, including Cosmonauts metro station and the Vladimir Lenin museum. . The book grows out of a 2023 conference, ""Where in the World Is Tashkent,"" as part of the Tashkent Modernism XX/XXI research and preservation project, which received a lot of press including in Arch Daily, Dezeen and Design Boom: https://www.dezeen.com/2023/11/08/tashkent-modernism-soviet-architecture-uzbekistan/ 500 illustrations

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