Utopia & collapse : rethinking Metsamor : the Armenian atomic city / edited by Katharina Roters and Sarhat Petrosyan ; photographs by Katharina Roters ; research by Sarhat Petrosyan ; with texts from Jörg H. Gleiter [and six others] ; drawings by Martin Mikaelyan.

Zurich : Park Books, [2018]

©2018

235 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm

"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

English

June 04, 2018

Includes bibliographical references.

History.