Lecture date: 2004-02-19
Shifting focus to the reshaping of domestic and private space for the final lecture in the series, Catherine Cooke concludes her examination of the urban and architectural matrix inherited from the Soviet era and the strategies being used to develop it. A leading expert on Soviet avant-garde architecture and socialist urban planning, Cooke is a Lecturer in Design at the Open University. An architect, writer, editor, former chair of DOCOMOMO UK, and eminent Russian scholar, her books include Chernikhov, Fantasy and Construction: Iakov Chernikhov’s Approach to Architectural Design; Architectural Drawings of the Russian Avant-Garde; Uses of Tradition in Russian and Soviet Architecture; and Russian Avant-Garde: Theories of Art, Architecture and the City. Followed by a short presentation on a recent architectural trip to Russia – including Siberia – by AA student Bart Schoonderbeek.
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