Border Theories
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
By using photography and historical documentation, Border Theories investigates the relationship between architecture, politics and history in three Russian cities. In the 20th century Birobidzhan, Kaliningrad and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk were designed, built and redeveloped under the Soviet regime, with the utopian vision of a socialist city as the guiding principle. By examining their development, Somers reveals how visions of urban planners, nourished by political convictions, could control but never fully overwrite a city and its history.
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013
Border Theories
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, 2013