La Préfabrication en URSS: Concept Technique et Dispositifs Architecturaux

In 1955 Nikita Khrushchev, the then First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, launched a campaign to promote mass housing. The Soviet Union was to solve its persistent housing crisis within a short span of time by harnessing the possibilities of industrial prefabrication. This was a watershed moment that would radically change the construction industry and the practice of architecture. Within just a couple of years, the richly ornamented buildings of the Stalin era gave way to sober, f...