Mid-20th-century architecture is rarely remembered fondly ... The Forum Hotel in Krakow, Poland, is another example of how 1970s communist architects simply couldn't resist lifting ugly buildings ...

All were motivated by the Soviet Union’s own Bauhaus: the avant-garde Vkhutemas college. Indeed, as the architecture is being rediscovered, it is making inroads into the tourist’s consciousness.

The curious thing about Soviet brutalist architecture is that it is incredibly rich in profoundly photogenic buildings that appear simultaneously utopian in their conception and intent and distinctly ...

The discussion broaches what distinguishes Soviet design in the history of monumental architecture, the ill-fated Palace of the Soviets project, postwar Soviet skyscrapers, how ideology is ...