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"Eastern Bloc buildings that resemble a sci-fi writer’s erotic dream…"— Short List, London, Reino Unido
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"Il fotografo Frédéric Chaubin immortala 90 edifici che a suo avviso rappresentano la quarta era dell'architettura sovietica, svelando l'insospettabile rinascita creativa sviluppatasi nel corso degli anni 1970-1990 quando, contrariamente agli anni venti e cinquanta, non emerse nessuna scuola o particolare indirizzo progettuale ma una sorta di caotico impulso progettuale la cui eterogeneità annunciava la fine di un sistema e dell'Unione Sovietica."— Giornale dell'Architettura, Torino, Italy
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"CCCP – pour Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed – est un livre de photos qui ravira les fans d’architecture et de voyages atypiques. Dans cet ouvrage, le photographe Frédéric Chaubin dévoile une petite centaine de bâtiments tout simplement incroyables, situés dans les anciennes républiques soviétiques, qui témoignent de ce qu’il qualifie de «quatrième époque de l’architecture soviétique».Tout un programme."— Voyages, Voyages, Bruxelles, Bélgica
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"A remarkable odyssey of the photographic documentation of a little-known period of Soviet architecture that was to astonish not just the cognoscenti…Frederic Chaubin brings us the authentic thrill of a true discovery that leaves the reader astounded with every page turned."— Morning Star, London, Reino Unido
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"CCCP is a facetious title for a book that’s anything but. Fascinated by the massive scale of Brezhnev-era architecture, photographer and magazine editor Frederic Chaubin toured the former USSR between 2003 and 2010 in search of what he calls in his introduction the ‘monsters’ and ‘orphans’ of the Soviet State. These striking buildings, constructed on a huge scale usually from reinforced concrete, are anti-picturesque, their outlandish gravity-defying forms pitted against the landscape…Chaubin extensively photographs the new genres that late Soviet life gave life to…These buildings are practically unknown in the West, and Chaubin’s exhilaration in discovering them is tangible…this book is an extraordinary achievement, and Chaubin’s haunting photographs only improve with looking."— The World of Interiors, London, Reino Unido
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"A thick new volume by Frederic Chaubin and TASCHEN looks at strange Soviet buildings. It is with great appropriateness that the title of Frederic Chaubin's new book published by TASCHEN is called "Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed" for these constructions are indeed highly cosmic. When the lone spectator usually thinks of Communist-era architecture, it usually invokes images of desperate-looking concrete apartment blocks or brutally monumental institutions. The choice selections in Mr. Chaubin's new tome, however, are a curious blend of heroism and whimsy, of monumentality and opulence; the vocabulary used to create these buildings was perhaps completely alien at the time, and ultimately also showcases the degradation of the Soviet Union and the inertia of its own bureaucracy… There is something utopic and futuristic about these buildings captured so eloquently by Mr. Chaubin… Mr. Chaubin has managed to put together a genre-defining book of these grossly undocumented buildings, and we are all the better for it."— LifeStyle, China
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"Chaubin’s CCCP is a substantial primer, exposing new frontiers of architectural history, but one should hope that they are not exploited."— Brooklynrail.org,
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"Spätsowjetische Phantasmen … Entwürfe zwischen Größenwahn und Science-Fiction."— Geo.de, Hamburg, Alemania
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"So vielfältig, ideenreich, variabel und auratisch hat man den Betonbrutalismus der Spätmoderne noch nie gesehen."— Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main, Alemania
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"Es ist die unerwartete Begegnung mit einer Fremde und einer Historie, die im Westen bislang kaum wahrgenommen wurden. … Insgesamt trägt die Lektüre zu einer gründlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der osteuropäischen Baugeschichte bei, der man zu lange mit alten Vorurteilen und Ressentiments begegnet ist oder die nur auf das Erbe der russischen Revolutionsavantgarde und des stalinistischen Neoklassizismus’ reduziert wurde."— Literaturkritik.de, Marburg, Alemania
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