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Leading specialist in architecture of Uzbekistan Boris Chukhovich shared his research, thanks to which the phenomenon of Tashkent modernism can be discovered and examined from different angles
- Philipp Meuser (Hg.), Architekturführer – Taschkent (2012)
- Philipp Meuser, Seismic modernism: architecture and housing in Soviet Tashkent (2016)
- Paul Stronski, Tashkent – Forging a Soviet City, 1930-1966 (2010)
- Masha Kirasirova, Building Anti-Colonial Utopia: The Politics of Space in Soviet Tashkent in the ‘Long 1960s,’ – The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties: Between Protest and Nation-Building (2018), р. 53–66
Tashkent Modernism.XX/XXI project team also recommends the publications of Boris Chukhovich:
- Local Modernism and Global Orientalism: Building the ‘Soviet Orient’
- Building the ‘Living East’
- Architectural Modernism and ‘Old Tashkent’: the long history of a brief encounter
Videos from the public talks organised during the Tashkent Modernism.Index exhibition in Milan in April 2023:
Preserving Modernism
The talk between Gayane Umerova, Rem Koolhaas, Jean-Louis Cohen moderated by Ekaterina Golovatyuk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkkliXKKU2o
Soviet modernisms. Stories of Appropriation and Engagement
Lectures by Ruben Arevshatyan, Nini Palavandishvili, and Boris Chukhovich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5SddAs5R60
Public talk by David Del Curto, Boris Chukhovich and Nicola Russi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8V72APNv9iE
A lecture by Armin Linke followed by a conversation with Ekaterina Golovatyuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_wkzMdGBpg
Modernism in Tashkent: stylistic evolution and institutional history
Lecture by Boris Chukhovich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn0MXYiejPQ
Koozarch Interviews with Tashkent.Modernism XX/XXI participants
https://koozarch.com/interviews/new-plots-open-up-on-preserving-tashkent-modernism