Andrey Bokov’s book explores little-known and informal design and intellectual activities of Soviet architects from the 1960s to the 1980s.
«Parallel architecture» was a result of personal and group activity by architects who did not fit into the system of large design institutes and standard projects. Parallel architecture comprised pictures of the future, individual responses to the challenge of the time, new images and meanings that, over time, would become popular and generally accepted. The book discusses those involved in parallel architecture and the forms their activity took, including participation in competitions, working at the seminars Senezhskaya Studio and Interdesign, designs for the City of the Future and children’s architectural studios. It covers the views and discoveries of architects fascinated by science and theory; those involved in artistic projects and industrial design, but who still considered themselves architects.
