Architecture & Urban Environment
The Lost Alliance of Architect and Artist
Cyrill Grishin
From New Tashkent to Alatau: Why Central Asia Is Building New Cities
Feride Mahsetova, Philipp Meuser
Tashkent and its multitude of ornaments
Evgeny Sklyarevsky
The pattern of civilization from ornaments
Evgeny Sklyarevsky
Evolving Cities of Central Asia: New Life for Old Cities
Feride Mahsetova
Everything is going according to the master plan: how standard rural housing is changing the face of Uzbekistan's suburbs
Feride Mahsetova
Cement of Power: Deconstructing the Architectural "Grand Style" of Central Asian "Stalinkas"
Philipp Meuser
Why is it easier to build a new capital in the CIS than to "fix" the old one? Explained by Philipp Meuser
Philipp Meuser
What do Kazan and the shift settlements of the Trans-Siberian Railway have in common? We explore with German architect Philipp Meuser.
Philipp Meuser
Meet Uzbekistan’s Central Exhibition Hall – a Modernist marvel whose better days are long past
Rushena Seminogova
When Women Create: Three Stories about Uzbekistan's Women Architects
Rushena Seminogova
Tashkent House of Cinema: A Wrecking Ball for a Landmark Soviet Modernist Building
Rushena Seminogova
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