Anna Bronovitskaya. The Path of Modernism: Evolution of Soviet Architecture from 1955 to 1991

Gagare 4th International Conference: a Long, Happy Life. Building and Thinking the Soviet City: 1956 to Now

October 30, 2015

Session 1: The Master and the Committee. Norm and Freedom in Late Soviet Architecture
Anna Bronovitskaya. The Path of Modernism: Evolution of Soviet Architecture from 1955 to 1991

Anna Bronovitskaya is an architectural historian, director of research at Moscow’s Institute of Modernism, and associate professor at MARCHI (Moscow Architectural Institute, State Academy). In 2015 she became one of the founders of the Institute of Modernism—an independent institution that researches Soviet architecture of the 1960s to 1980s. Since 1993, she has been lecturing at MARCHI. From 2011 to 2013, Bronovitskaya was head of the DOCOMOMO Russian section. She is also the author of multiple publications on 20th century architecture.