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ARCHITECTURAL DYNAMICS OF FORM-BUILDING IN THE SOVIET NEOCLASSICISM IN WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE 1930s – 1950s

open access: yesАрхитектон, 2021
The development of Soviet neoclassicism in Western Siberia is considered from the perspective of a system-genesis approach as a successive process involving a three-stage scheme of system selection: diversifying, directing and stabilizing selection of ...
Kostova Evgeniya V.
doaj   +1 more source

Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling, Mobility, and Anchoring in Small‐Body Sampling Robots: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesSmartBot, EarlyView.
Small‐body sampling robots are exploration systems that perform contact, sampling, and stable operations on microgravity bodies such as asteroids and comets. The authors review representative robot architectures and key technologies, focusing on the mechanisms, evolution, and coupling of sampling, mobility, and anchoring.
Yurui Shen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The architectural ensemble of the scientific institutes in Pushchino: history and design principles in the 1950s–1980s

open access: yesАрхитектон
The study covers the period from the beginning of designing the scientific research town of Pushchino in the Moscow region in 1956 to the end of its active construction in the late 1980s.
Antipin Konstantin S.
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

open access: yesStructural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Anatole Kopp’s Town and Revolution as history and a manifesto: a reactualization of Russian Constructivism in the West in the 1960s

open access: yesJournal of Art Historiography, 2016
This text suggests a new perspective on the French architectural historian Anatole Kopp’s writings on Soviet architecture. His seminal work, Town and Revolution (1967), is one of the first Western books on Soviet architecture after the Second World War ...
Olga Yakushenko
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Modernism in Miniature: Points of View [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The exhibition ‘Modernism in Miniature: Points of View,’ curated by Deriu, explored intersections between the model boom of the early twentieth century and the parallel explosion of mass media in architectural culture.
Deriu, D., Deriu, D.
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Развитие архитектурного орнамента в зодчестве Казахстана конца XIX — начала XXI вв. (на примере г. Алматы) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The peculiarities of form-making with the use of ornamental compositions in Kazakhstan architecture have been considered and the characteristics of the ornamented architectural forms development process in the late 19th — early 21st centuries have been ...
Priemets, O. N., Приемец, О. Н.
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Success and failure in foreign policy: Comparing Bob Hawke and Kevin Rudd's regional order‐building initiatives

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Remarkably little is known about what factors drive success or failure in foreign policy. In part, this is because there is little fundamental agreement on what constitutes success or failure in this domain in the first place. This article engages with these shortcomings by comparing two similar regional order‐building initiatives overseen by ...
Benjamin Day
wiley   +1 more source

The myth of the Great Patriotic War as a tool of the Kremlin’s great power policy. OSW Commentary NUMBER 316 31.12.2019 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The sacralised Soviet victory over Nazism is a central element of the politics of memory, as utilised by the Russian state today. It constitutes an important theme in the Kremlin’s ideological offensive that is intended to legitimise Russia’s great-power
Domańska, Maria
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