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'Ukrainian Modernism' combines Soloviov's contemporary photos with archival images, exploring the breadth of the region's architectural marvels--Kate Mothes ""Colossal"" 'Ukrainian Modernism' is currently the most comprehensive visual and analytical study of Ukraine's modernist architecture.-- ""The Odessa Journal"" [Brings] long-overdue attention to a period of architecture still largely absent from mainstream discourse.--Ravail Khan ""designboom"" Through a photographic journey, Soloviovs chronicles Ukraine's varied Modernist history from avant-garde constructivism to late Soviet Brutalism.--Gico Gavino ""Hypebeast"" With photographs and texts by Dmytro Soloviov, an architectural tour guide, the book is an essential survey of an overlooked legacy that is very much under threat.--Jonathan Bell ""Wallpaper*""

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Dmytro Soloviov is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian architecture photographer and researcher documenting modernist art and architecture. His lifelong mission is to preserve modernist heritage and promote its value. Dmytro campaigns for the protection of significant modernist buildings and artworks, conducts architectural tours and lectures based on his research, and organizes monumental art restoration projects. His Instagram account @ukrainianmodernism has over 100,000 followers worldwide. Owen Hatherley is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture. Landscapes of Communism, a history of communism in Europe told through the built environments of former socialist states, was published in June 2015. EDITORS: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell have been publishing critically acclaimed books on Soviet culture since 2004 with their Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia. More recent titles include Chernobyl; A Stalkers' Guide, Spomenik Monument Database and Soviet Bus Stops.

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