When people refer to socio-architectural experiments, they usually mean the Soviet avant-garde.
But in Siberia this trend emerged almost a decade before the October Revolution. Architects, engineers, artists, writers, politicians, doctors, and even agronomists all took part in an active transformation of life that swept across Siberia in from the 1910s to the 1930s. The book presents a wide panorama of creative pursuits, utopian to varying degrees—from attempts to define a «Siberian style» in the 1910s to the ambiguous «appropriation of classical heritage» in the 1930s; from the design of affordable housing for the working class to the construction of palatial residences for the Soviet elite; from grassroots initiatives to create pastoral garden cities to the centralized program for building socialist cities.
