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"The images present a fantastical world where concrete is king and architects were seemingly all obsessed with bad sci-fi."— Sabotage Times, London, Reino Unido
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"This is a huge, fascinating book… Frequently, it’s the incongruity of the brutalism in the midst of the Soviet countryside and simple townscapes that gives the buildings a feeling of being part alien, part James Bond villain-hideout… However, it is not a building that is the most telling image in this collection. Sitting in a park in Kaunas, Lithuania is a 32 metre-high memorial to victims of the Holocaust…The memorial is all the more evocative when you learn it was placed on the site of mass executions during the Holocaust. It is an incredible piece of work.…Many of the buildings featured in this book face an uncertain future. The wide-open interiors, the exteriors that form a meeting place between sculpture and architecture, are no longer needed to prove any point. They’re expensive to maintain (if they were ever completed) and concrete is not the most resistant material. It’s a shame. They are unlike many other extant buildings on earth."— The Big Issue, Glasgow, Reino Unido
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"As the Soviet Union crumbled, it gave rise to a chaotic age of building. Yet poetic images of its decay spark an unexpected rebirth of architectural imagination."— Architectural Review, London, Reino Unido
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"Schillernd und bizarr lockt das fantastische Einbandmotiv. Druckfrisch ist der großzügig entworfene Hochglanzband. … Über dreihundert großformatige Seiten bergen Übersichten, Erläuterungen und Originalberichte. Ausführliche Texttafeln erklären die Thematik des Werks. Im Berliner Flagship-Store des TASCHEN-Verlags, der dank seiner vielbeachteten Buchpräsentationen als Event-Stätte der ungewöhnlichen Art hervortritt, wartet das Publikum auf die Vorstellung des Buches. Kommunistische Architektur aus 14 verschiedenen ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken ist im Jahr 2011 faszinierender denn je."— Titel-Magazin, Berlin, Alemania
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"Monoliti inquietanti. Difformità meccaniche. Building solenni e severi che impongono la forza di una brutalità prepotente e predominante. Sono le architetture utopistiche e chimeriche del socialismo sovietico. Strumento di rieducazione popolare ed elementi trionfali del potere. ... Testimoni impassibili di un passato che non c'è più e che sembra balzare fuori da un mondo fantastico e mai realmente esistito. Come le architetture immortalate da Frédéric Chaubin, fotografo e direttore della rivista francese Citizen K. Che nei quattro remoti angoli dell'ex Unione Sovietica ha scovato questi monumenti futuribili e li ha raccolti nel volume CCCP - Cosmic Communist Construction Photographed edito dalla tedesca TASCHEN."— MFL, Milano, Italy
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„Chaubins Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed – ein Architekturbuch, das überrascht.“— Buchzeit, 3 Sat, Alemania
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“[CCCP}…is one of the most splendid of recent architecural publications and a revlation. It illustrates late Soviet public buildings almost entirely unknown in the West.”— Apollo Magazine, London, Reino Unido
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"Si les collections de photos indigentes et les rééditions masquées font encore florès, le sérieux des publications d’architecture s’affirme. Avec l’histoire récente, elles intègrent des domaines à la surface desquels on s’était habitué à surfer, comme le paysage et les pionniers de l‘écologie, ou encore des univers insoupçonnés, sources pour les architectes en mal d’inspiration. A cet égard, les images révélées par Frédéric Chaubin, de 90 constructions de l’Union soviétique (CCCP, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed), forment un ensemble saisissant."— Le Monde des beaux Livres, Paris, Francia
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“Photographer Frédéric Chaubin reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be the fourth age of Soviet architecture. His poetic pictures, published by TASCHEN in the book entitled CCCP Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed reveal an unexpected rebirth of imagination, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no “school” or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Their diversity announced the end of the Soviet Union. Fascinating and scary ! A nice Christmas present! Anyone?”— Artisnotdead.com,
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“CCCP, the playful acronym of this tome, suggests the irreverent, ironic glance it casts at Soviet architecture. The photographs taken across the former Soviet Union capture all the kitschy minutiae and over-the-top monumentalism of state-controlled design, manifest in everything from a House of Happiness in Kyrgyzstan to circus buildings in Moldova and Tatarstan.”— Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canadá
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