Soviet SciFi Architecture
Once again, Pingmag has a interview with a photograper specialising in capturing buildings that appear to be more in-keeping with the output of the pens and paints of Syd Mead than than contemporary architecture. This time its the turn of Frederic Caubin.
These pictures are mostly of Soviet buildings constructed in the 70s and 80s – a lot of them are particularly striking and posess a wonderful retro-futuristic aesthetic. There is a real sense of hunger for the future, and something quite laputa/shadow of the colossus of their lonely existance, in a future that didnt quite live up to the dreams of their architects. Caubin himself believes they convey some sort of nostalgia to the viewer.
