While socially conscious architecture and urban planning ... to block heat and keep residents cool. Brutalism became especially popular in the Soviet Union, which had an increasing need for ...

It has been part of the Russian Empire, occupied by the Germans during both World Wars, divided between Poland and the Soviet Union ... architecture and landscape: a enormous concrete, Brutalist ...

Like many Soviet structures, the distinct, brutalist architecture tells the tales of ... Bulgaria's relationship with the Soviet Union left a stamp all over the country. Under the control of ...

The brutalist architecture of the Soviet era has found itself fetishised ... to power in 1964 (he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union till 1982) that the focus ...