Description: An essential exploration of how Russian ideas about the United States shaped architecture and urban design from the czarist era to the fall of the U.S.S.R.
Review Quotes: "The book isn't argumentative or polemical so much as illuminating, a collection of extraordinary anecdotes, objects and ephemera. . . . The illustrations, some of which are assembled into photo-essays between chapters, are stories in themselves."--Owen Hatherley, London Review of Books
"A fascinating history of reflections and distortions that traces the image of Russia and that of modernity itself."--Arquitectura Viva "Building a new New World offers an overview of [a] vast topic in a compact format . . . [and] provides direct access to an immense amount of archival material, much of it not previously available in any form."--Eric Paul Mumford, Architectural Record Named One of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2020, sponsored by the Swiss Culture Awards Federal Office of Culture Winner of the SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians