TY - BOOK AU - Kostyuk,Maria AU - De Magistris,Alessandro AU - Patti,Federica AU - Zheludkova,E.I︠U︡ TI - Boris Iofan: architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. SN - 9783869223124 AV - NA1199.I56 K69 2019 U1 - 724/.6 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Berlin PB - DOM Publishers KW - Iofan, Boris Mikhaĭlovich, KW - Architects KW - Soviet Union KW - Architecture KW - History KW - 20th century KW - fast KW - Palace of the Soviets (Moscow, Russia) N1 - Text in parallel English and Russian; Boris Iofan Architect behind the Palace of the Soviets -- 1 Boris Iofan. The Principal factors in the Formation of Iofan’s style 006 -- 2 Boris Iofan in Rome: Professional training, contacts, desings, and realized buildings, between 1914 and 1924 012 -- 3 The sources of Boris Iofan’s ‘creative credo’ The role played by Iofan’s Italian experience and Russian avant-garde. Early designs and buildings 022 -- 4 The palace of the Soviets. The design competition and Boris Iofan’s designs for the Palace of the Soviets 032 -- 5 Boris Iofan and the arrangements regarding the Palace of the Soviets. 058 -- 6 The USSR Pavilion for the 1937 Paris International Exposition, in the context of Boris Iofan’s creativity activity in the 1930s and 1940s 068 -- 7 The postwar period in the work of Boris Iofan 080 -- 8 Boris Iofan in the 1960s and 1970s: The Final Works of the Master 092 -- N2 - Boris Iofan is best known as the architect behind the Palace of the Soviets. Yet his style was not limited to the Socialist Classicism that flourished under Stalin. Rather, Iofan's architectural language evolved throughout his lifetime, from his eclecticist beginnings in Rome, to the grandeur of the wedding-cake style in the 1930s, to his incorporation of concrete panels under Khrushchev. This book presents a collection of essays that chart the development of the architect's variegated career that spanned nearly six decades ER -